34. ELAINE STURTEVANT (1924-2014) Raysse Peinture à haute tension 1968-1969 Signed, titled and dated 68-69 on the back Acrylic, collage, flock mounted on canvas and neon 162 x 96.5 x 15 cm Provenance Private collection, Paris Exhibition Galerie Claude Givaudan, Sturtevant. Eight Paintings and a Prototype, 1969 and 1970, Paris, Moderna Museet, Double messages, 2010 (another copy exhibited) Moderna Museet, Pop Art Design, June-September 2013 (another copy exhibited and illustrated) Bibliography Sturtevant , Catalogue Raisonné 1964-2004, work reproduced under number 377 on page 149, published by Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Maim & Lena Maculan Elaine Sturtevant was a master of appropriation who recreated works by iconic twentieth-century artists in order to explore authenticity, artistic celebrity and the creative process. Describing her approach as "repetition", she began in 1964 to make deliberately inaccurate copies of the works of her predecessors and contemporaries, repeating pieces by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Marcel Duchamp. Some artists appreciated his project: Warhol lent him original screens to reproduce his "Flowers" series. Others were irritated. Claes Oldenburg, for example, bristled when she presented a version of his work The Store. Throughout her career, Sturtevant has been alternately criticised, rejected and celebrated (she received a Golden Lion in 2011).image production.