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Robert Longo
Joanna and Larry, from Men in the Cities
- Estimate
- £30,000 - 50,000
£68,750
Lot Details
The complete set of two lithographs, on Arches paper, the full sheets.
1983
both S. 183 x 91.5 cm (72 x 36 in.)
Both signed, dated and numbered 2/48 in pencil (there were also 10 impressions in Roman numerals and 10 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann & Klüser, Munich and New York, both framed.
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Catalogue Essay
"Men in the cities grew directly out of a small relief that I made from a Fassbinder film, An American Soldier. It was taken from the scene at the end of the movie where two gangsters get shot. In its image it embedded a high compact kind of bang; at the same time it has this incredibly fluid grace, the speed of grace ... It seems like the gestures of Men in the Cities are very much about the time we live in, that "jerking" into now."
- Robert Longo (Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 222)
- Robert Longo (Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 222)
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