Robert Longo (1953) - Untitled (Falling Flag)
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Robert Longo
(1953)
Untitled (Falling Flag), 2025
Serigraphy 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
Authentication and provenance certificate to be issued together with the original artwork.
Within original packaging in a wooden box.
Description of the artwork and subject:
Not a waving flag, but a flag falling. In Untitled (Falling Flag), Robert Longo returns to a symbol that has accompanied 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 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, built in the original drawing through successive layers of charcoal on white paper — the same accumulation method that has always characterized Longo's practice, here brought to an intensity almost to the point of totalization. The void is not a neutral background: it is the true subject of the work.
The serigraphic process faithfully translates this complexity: 9 color passes in grayscale separation, to render the entire material density of the original charcoal in a hyperreal grain that only serigraphy can achieve with this precision.
Original artwork, in pristine condition, signed and hand-numbered by Robert Longo along the lower edge.
Robert Longo
(1953)
Untitled (Falling Flag), 2025
Serigraphy 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
Authentication and provenance certificate to be issued together with the original artwork.
Within original packaging in a wooden box.
Description of the artwork and subject:
Not a waving flag, but a flag falling. In Untitled (Falling Flag), Robert Longo returns to a symbol that has accompanied 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 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, built in the original drawing through successive layers of charcoal on white paper — the same accumulation method that has always characterized Longo's practice, here brought to an intensity almost to the point of totalization. The void is not a neutral background: it is the true subject of the work.
The serigraphic process faithfully translates this complexity: 9 color passes in grayscale separation, to render the entire material density of the original charcoal in a hyperreal grain that only serigraphy can achieve with this precision.
Original artwork, in pristine condition, signed and hand-numbered by Robert Longo along the lower edge.
Details
Artist
Robert Longo (1953)
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Owner or reseller
Edition
Limited edition
Edition number
247/415
Title of artwork
Untitled (Falling Flag)
Technique
Silkscreen
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Netherlands
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
66 cm
Width
63.9 cm
Depiction/theme
Famous landmarks
Style
Realism
Period
2020+
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