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Prints + Multiples 
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James Rosenquist 1933–2017

The Flame Still Dances on Leo's Book from the Leo Castelli 90th Birthday portfolio

1997
lithograph in colors 37 h × 27 w in (94 × 69 cm)
estimate: $1,200–1,800
result: $2,000
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Signed, titled, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘LXV/XC The Flame Still Dances on Leo's Book James Rosenquist 1997’. This work is artist's proof 65 of 90 apart from the numbered edition of 90 printed by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY and pubished by Jean-Christophe Castelli, New York.

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I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land'; things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

James Rosenquist

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