Details STURTEVANT (1924-2014)Johns Painting with Two Ballsstenciled with the artists name and title and dated PAINTING WITH TWO BALLS 1987 STURTEVANT (lower edge); signed again, titled again and dated again Johns Painting with Two Balls e. sturtevant 87 (on the reverse)encaustic and paper collage on three joined canvases with metal brackets and two balls65 x 54 1/8 in. (165.1 x 137.5 cm.)Executed in 1987. Provenance Stefan Stux Gallery, New YorkBess Cutler Gallery, New YorkPrivate collection, United States, 1988Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 14 November 2019, lot 3Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Literature R. Smith, Art: Sigmar Polkes Witty Disappearing Act, The New York Times, 6 November 1987, p. 32.J. Waters and B. Hainley, Art - A Sex Book, New York, 2003, pp.18, 20-21 and 203 (illustrated).L. Maculan, ed., Sturtevant: Catalogue Raisonné 1964-2004, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, p. 52, no. 31 (illustrated). Exhibited New York, Stux Gallery, Sturtevant., 1987, n.p. (illustrated).Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Nice, Villa Arson, STURTEVANT, June 1992-March 1993, p. 81 (illustrated). Conditions of sale