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January 7, 2025
James Rosenquist with his mother and an early creation from his sign-painting days in Minnesota, 1954
[James Rosenquist with his mother and an early creation from his sign-painting days in Minnesota, 1954.]
Wrote Deborah Solomon in the New York Times:
There's a wonderful photograph [above] that attests to Rosenquist's early love of road signs.
It was taken outdoors, on an empty street in Minneapolis.
The artist, then a tall, lanky man around 21, and his proud mom stand side by side, looking upward.
Above them looms a giant billboard for Coca-Cola, one of the first Rosenquist ever painted.
It is a genuinely captivating work, a roadside Magritte in which various unrelated objects (an arrow, a shapely glass of soda, a fashionable woman in a hat and gloves) float dreamily against a cloud-laced sky.
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Anatomical Hello Kitty
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$265.
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