“People keep coming at me with the question, is it a painting or is it a photograph? Technically it’s a photograph. It’s a photograph because it’s photographic paper. But obviously I think about them as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting, right? I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They’re sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they’re also kind of ready-mades.”
—Cory Arcangel
- Provenance
  Team Gallery, New York
  Private Collection
  Phillips, New York, November 10, 2015, lot 141
  Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
- Exhibited
  Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image, March 11–May 9, 2010, pp. 16-17 (illustrated, p. 17)

Cory Arcangel

Photoshop CS: 84 by 66 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=25180 x=15100, mouseup y=1400 x=6400, 2009

chromogenic print face mounted to Diasec, in artist's frame
87 x 69 1/4 in. (221 x 175.9 cm)
Executed in 2009.

Estimate
$70,000 - 100,000

Sold for $76,200

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New York Auction 17 July 2024