
Still Life with Three Puppies, after Gauguin (From Pictures of Magazines)
Vik Muniz recreates Paul Gauguin's iconic Post-Impressionist composition using fragments of cut and arranged magazine pages, transforming mass-media imagery into a richly textured simulacrum of the original painting. The resulting chromogenic print captures the collaged source material with photographic precision, blurring the boundary between painting, sculpture, and photography. Muniz's layered process invites reflection on reproduction, consumption, and the way meaning shifts as images migrate across different cultural contexts.
- Medium
- chromogenic print, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 15, 2015
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