Nov 12, 2015 - Sale 2398

Sale 2398 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
LYNDA BENGLIS
Centrefold.

Cotton t-shirt with color screenprint and airbrushing, 1974. 737x460 mm; 29x18 inches. Edition of approximately 50. Signed and dated in felt-tip pen and black ink, lower right. Printed by Bill Weege at the Jones Road Print Shop, Barneveld, Wisconsin.

This extremely scarce t-shirt features the infamous photograph from Benglis' legendary ad that ran in the November 1974 issue of Artforum. The bold and subversive imagery sparked a controversy, eliciting extreme criticism as well as veneration. The ad opened a dialogue about women in art and reflected the greater sexual revolution happening at the time.