Robert Longo (1953) - Untitled (Falling Flag)

Robert Longo
(1953)

Untitled (Falling Flag), 2025

Screenprint in 9 colors on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin Radiant White paper
Dimensions: 66.00 cm × 63.90 cm
Edition: 247/415
Signed, dated and individually numbered by hand by the artist

Original edition of 2025
Publisher: Avant Arte, Amsterdam
Certificate of authenticity and provenance to be issued with the artwork as original.

In original packaging in a wooden box.

Description of the artwork and subject:
Not a waving flag, but a flag that is falling. In Untitled (Falling Flag), Robert Longo returns to a symbol that has traversed his entire career — the stars and stripes of the American flag — to make of it, this time, a gesture of emptiness rather than celebration. The work stems from his recent reflection on democracy and power, and the artist himself has described it as "a curtain that falls, behind which there is nothing."

The flag occupies less than half of the image. The rest is absolute black, constructed in the original drawing through progressive layers of charcoal on white paper — the same accumulation method that has always characterized Longo’s practice, here brought to an almost totalizing intensity. The emptiness is not a neutral background: it is the true subject of the work.

The screenprint process faithfully translates this complexity: 9 color passes in grayscale separation, to render all the material density of the original charcoal in an ultra-real grain that only screenprinting can achieve with this precision.

Original artwork, in perfect condition, signed and hand-numbered by Robert Longo along the lower edge.