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Ray Johnson

Untitled (Andy with Cows)

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000
$25,000
Lot Details
Mixed media collage with ink in colors, on illustration board, the full sheet,
1976
S. 15 x 14 7/8 in. (38.1 x 37.8 cm)
signed and dated `1976' in pencil, with the Estate of Ray Johnson stamp on the reverse of the frame and inventory #10557, framed.
Catalogue Essay
Cerebral and enigmatic, Ray Johnson was an artist that disallows categorization. A creator of content free performances called Nothings, a writer, artist, poet, collagist, and perhaps most well-known for his pioneering involvement in mail art, specifically the movement of art to friends and acquaintances through the postal service which he called New York Correspondence School. The following three collages convey a similarly recondite and alluring presence as the artist’s persona. Compiled of scraps and stamps, mentions of fellow artists Warhol, Indiana and Rosenquist, with portraiture and animal forms, in ink wash and line; these works intrigue with layers of esoteric meaning and references.

Ray Johnson

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