Dennis Hopper(1936-2010)New York City (UFO)
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Chromogenic print, signed, dated and numbered in ink on the verso; from the edition of 3.
sheet 75 x 50in (190.5 x 127cm)
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Provenance
With Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Filmmaker, actor and artist Dennis Hopper first appeared on television in 1954 and spent the next five decades either in front of or behind a camera. In 1969, Hopper co-wrote, directed and acted in the cult film Easy Rider, which changed the face of American cinema forever.
Hopper also used photography, painting, sculpture and installation to express his artistic vision and his first show of photographs, held at the Fort Worth Museum of Art in the early 1970s, was met with great critical acclaim. While most prolific in the 1960s, photographs such as lot 3, an oversized and atmospheric cityscape abstraction - one of six in the sale (please see lots 18, 23, 79, 85 and 87 for other examples) made in the 1990s and all atypically signed by Hopper - are characteristic of his mature style, created during extensive travels abroad. Before Hopper's death, he remarked, "while people will always remember me as an actor and for Easy Rider - I want to be remembered as a photographer, not just as an actor who took pictures".
