Lot 37
Richard Pettibone(American, born 1938)Andy Warhol, Sixteen Jackies, 1964
1996
1996
1 July 2020, 13:00 EDT
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Richard Pettibone (American, born 1938)
Andy Warhol, Sixteen Jackies, 1964
1996
signed, titled, dated 1996 and numbered 11/12 on the overlap
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, in the artist's frame
10 3/8 by 8 3/8 in.
26.4 by 21.3 cm.
This work is number 11 from an edition of 12.
1996
signed, titled, dated 1996 and numbered 11/12 on the overlap
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, in the artist's frame
10 3/8 by 8 3/8 in.
26.4 by 21.3 cm.
This work is number 11 from an edition of 12.
Footnotes
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Private Collection, USA
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
A pioneer of Appropriation Art, Richard Pettibone has created miniature replicas of masterworks of Contemporary Art throughout his career beginning in the 1960s. The small-scale of these works was originally an effort to replicate the size of the images he admired as he encountered them in Artforum magazine. His oeuvre brings into question the nature of authenticity, ownership and reproduction and offers a commentary on 20th Century art as a whole.
Pettibone created replicas of many of the century's masterpieces including examples by Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella. However, it was original appropriator Andy Warhol, who Pettibone returned to again and again throughout his career after seeing the artist's iconic Soup Cans in 1962. In the same way that Warhol appropriated recognisable brands and company logos, Pettibone similarly reproduces and replicates an image made recognisable by another artist. The present work is Pettibone's reproduction of Warhol's seminal series of Jackie Kennedy, which itself was taken from photographs reproduced by Warhol. An instantly recognisable image in the canon of Pop Art, Pettibone's replica blurs the line between photography and painting and questions authorship, appropriation and originality, even more so than any other work in his oeuvre.
Other examples from Pettibone's Andy Warhol, Jackie series are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and further examples of his practise can be found at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
