Attributed to Elaine Sturtevant, no coa, private collection, medium: OIL,measurements: 36"HX24"W framed, good condition, Biography:Elaine Frances Sturtevant (née Horan; August 23, 1924 – May 7, 2014), also known professionally as Sturtevant, was an American artist. Sturtevant's earliest known paintings were made in New York in the late 1950s. In these works, she sliced tubes of paint open, flattened them, and attached them to canvas. Most of these works contain fragments from tubes of several colors of paint, some have additional pencil scribbles and daubs of paint.Sturtevant was close friends with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, both of whom own paintings from this period.In 1964, by memorization only, she began to manually reproduce (or "repeat")paintings and objects created by her contemporaries with results that can immediately be identified with an original, at a point that turned the concept of originality on its head. She initially focused on works by such American artists as Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol.Warhol gave Sturtevant one of his silkscreens so she could produce her own versions of his Flowers paintings, Warhol Flowers (1969–70).When asked about his own technique, Warhol once said, "I don't know. Ask Elaine."