Untitled #19

Details

Lari Pittman (B. 1952)
Untitled #19
matte oil, aerosol lacquer and cel-vinyl on gessoed paper
22 x 30in. (55.7 x 75.7cm.)
Executed in 2003

Provenance

Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Regen Projects, Lari Pittman, 2003.

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Lot Essay

Untitled #19 by Lari Pittman juxtaposes different visual registers in an abstract surrealist configuration reminiscent of a latter-day Joan Miro. The complexity of Pittman’s elaborate composition has a hallucinatory quality whose visually gripping effect is created by the meticulously layered patterns and forms quoting various styles from Victorian silhouettes to social realist murals.

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