Vente: 500 / Evening Sale 17 juillet 2020 à Munich Lot 242


242
Sigmar Polke
Ohne Titel (aus der Serie: Duo), 1966.
Gouache
Estimation:
€ 40,000 / $ 44,000
Résultat:
€ 50,000 / $ 55,000

( frais d'adjudication compris)
Ohne Titel (aus der Serie: Duo). 1966.
Gouache.
Signed and dated in lower right, as well as signed and inscribed "38" on verso. On brownish wove paper. 61.5 x 86.4 cm (24.2 x 34 in), the full sheet. [CH].

• Ingenious subversive drawing with a socio-political notion.
• Caricature with a grotesque background.
• This collage is an ironic comment of a political journalistic activity.
• In the early 1960s Polke and Richter were among the founders of "Capitalistic Realism“.
• Polke ironizes the quest for style and meaning in contrast to the then prevailing principles of Informalism
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We are grateful to Michael Trier for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Collection Waltraud Achten.




242
Sigmar Polke
Ohne Titel (aus der Serie: Duo), 1966.
Gouache
Estimation:
€ 40,000 / $ 44,000
Résultat:
€ 50,000 / $ 55,000

( frais d'adjudication compris)