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Sturtevant — Johns White Flag
Sturtevant

Johns White Flag

1991

Sturtevant's 'Johns White Flag' is a three-part encaustic and collage on canvas work from 1991 that engages with and reinterprets Jasper Johns' iconic imagery. The work exemplifies Sturtevant's practice of strategic appropriation and recontextualization of canonical modernist artworks.

Medium
encaustic and collage on canvas, in three parts

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Contemporary Evening Auction

May 19, 2022

Estimate: $600,000$800,000

Lot 102

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Sturtevant, Johns White Flag, 1991

Sturtevant's 'Johns White Flag' is a three-part encaustic and collage on canvas work from 1991 that engages with and reinterprets Jasper Johns' iconic imagery. The work exemplifies Sturtevant's practice of strategic appropriation and recontextualization of canonical modernist artworks.

Medium
encaustic and collage on canvas, in three parts
Year
1991
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Institutional Critique, Conceptual, American, Collage, Triptych, White, Encaustic, Abstract, Contemporary, Post-Modern

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