Eric Doeringer Appropriation Gary Hume Begging For It 2006 Painting

Eric Doeringer
"Gary Hume Begging For It, 1994" (from Bootleg Series), 2006
Latex enamel on canvas, unique
9 x 6 inches
Signed "Eric Doeringer" in black felt-tip pen on verso. 
Stamped "ERIC DOERINGER WWW.ERICDOERINGER.COM" on verso
Pristine condition

This is a 2006 Eric Doeringer Appropriation on canvas of Gary Hume's Begging For It, 1994. Another version of this Eric Doeringer Appropriation painting is in the collection of the Queens University Agnes Museum, Ontario, Canada.

Eric Doeringer creates “bootlegs” which are appropriations of iconic artworks by well known and established artists. Before receiving International fame and numerous gallery exhibitions, Eric Doeringer who has an M.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, has been creating Bootlegs since 2001 when he began selling this innovative series of recreations by Artists like Gary Hume, Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring from a sidewalk stand he set up on West 24th street in Chelsea, adjacent to the galleries that showed similar artwork he was then appropriating. 

This Gary Hume Bootleg canvas is particularly desirable as it is unique and hand painted. In addition, this unique Eric Doeringer Appropriation is hand signed and dated in pen on the verso by Eric Doeringer; most Doeringer Bootlegs are ONLY stamped on the verso, and not signed.  

Eric Doeringer is a recognized as an acclaimed International Appropriation Artist who joins the ranks of esteemed artists such as Richard Pettibone, Richard Prince, Sturtevant and Mike Bidlo.

A similar Eric Doeringer 2003 Bootleg Appropriation of Takashi Murakami canvas fetched $5,292 at Sotheby’s NY March 18, 2021.

Recent Erik Doeringer exhibitions include The Brode, Los Angeles, inspired by works in the collection of Edythe and Eli Broad and Christy’s, New York, based on works being sold concurrently at Christie’s. Erik Doeringer series of Bootlegs have been exhibited in museums and institutions around the world, including MoMA/PS1, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, La Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris, MUSAC Leon, Spain and Centre' d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona.