Lot No. 290


Sigmar Polke *


Sigmar Polke * - Contemporary Art I

(Oels/Niederschlesien 1942–2010 Köln)
Untitled (Mönchengladbach 1983), signed, dated S. Polke 84, acrylic gloss paint on coloured offset lithograph, sheet size 65.1 x 92.1 cm, image size 63 x 89.5 cm, Edition Jahresgabe des Museumsvereins Mönchengladbach, framed

This work is an example from the edition of thirty unique variants.

Provenance:
European Private Collection

Literature:
Jürgen Becker and Claus von der Osten, Sigmar Polke,
Die Editionen 1963 - 2000 Catalogue Raisonné, p. 198–199
and 419, no. 57 (another example illustrated)

"Polke pushed his materials to the point where reason falters and where things begin to find their form not through the artist’s foresight or deliberate hand but through such non-rational conditions as gravity, accident, and the associative power of the unconscious.” Kathy Halbreich, Alibis: An Introduction, in exh. cat. Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010, The Museum of Modern Art New York (and travelling), New York 2014, p. 66

Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747

petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de

25.11.2020 - 16:00

Estimate:
EUR 50,000.- to EUR 60,000.-

Sigmar Polke *


(Oels/Niederschlesien 1942–2010 Köln)
Untitled (Mönchengladbach 1983), signed, dated S. Polke 84, acrylic gloss paint on coloured offset lithograph, sheet size 65.1 x 92.1 cm, image size 63 x 89.5 cm, Edition Jahresgabe des Museumsvereins Mönchengladbach, framed

This work is an example from the edition of thirty unique variants.

Provenance:
European Private Collection

Literature:
Jürgen Becker and Claus von der Osten, Sigmar Polke,
Die Editionen 1963 - 2000 Catalogue Raisonné, p. 198–199
and 419, no. 57 (another example illustrated)

"Polke pushed his materials to the point where reason falters and where things begin to find their form not through the artist’s foresight or deliberate hand but through such non-rational conditions as gravity, accident, and the associative power of the unconscious.” Kathy Halbreich, Alibis: An Introduction, in exh. cat. Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010, The Museum of Modern Art New York (and travelling), New York 2014, p. 66

Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747

petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de


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Auction: Contemporary Art I
Auction type: Saleroom auction with Live Bidding
Date: 25.11.2020 - 16:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: online

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