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DENNIS HOPPER, Double Standard, 1961

Double Standard, 1961

Gelatin silver print. 16 1/8 x 23 7/8 in. (41 x 60.6 cm). Signed and numbered 11/15 in pencil on the verso.

PROVENANCE Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 17 October 2007, lot 106
LITERATURE Hopper, "Standard Bullshit" Parkett, No. 18, p. 49; Francisc, Les Années Pop 1956-1968, pl. 62.83

Dennis Hopper's interest in art began as an adolescent, after his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute under the tutelage of Thomas Hart Benton. Arguably, it was the celebrated Regionalist's work that inspired Hopper to turn his lens to the American social landscape. Hopper's photographic oeuvre from the 1960s preceded his iconic "Easy Rider" movie from 1969, and could in many forms be regarded as having laid out the visual foundations for the movie. Organic, witty, playful, and candidly untamed, Hopper's body of work, including Double Standard, not only provides a glimpse into a bygone era, but also a peek into one of the most innovative minds that came to define it.   Hopper's photography has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Center for Photographic Art, CA; the Centre Georges Pompidou, France; Moscow House of Photography, Russia; and Musée de l'Elysée, Switzerland, among others.

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