Lot 144
  • 144

Günther Uecker

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
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Description

  • Günther Uecker
  • Riß des Künstlerischen Genius (Rupture of the Artistic Genius)
  • signed, titled and dated 87 on the reverse
  • acrylic and nails on canvas laid on board
  • 150 by 150cm.; 59 by 59in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Italy

Exhibited

Munich, Galerie auf der Praterinsel, Günther Uecker : Kann Fruchtbarkeit auf Asche Gründen/Can Ashes Yield to Procreation, 1990-91

Condition

Colour:The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate.Condition: This work is in very good and original condition. Some dust fibres have accumulated on the nails over time.
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Catalogue Note

‘In the beginning was the nail, which seemed to me to be the ideal object with which to model light and shadow - to make time visible. I incorporated it into my painting, and it forged a link between the works and the space around them. It protruded as a tactile feeler from the flat surface, much like a sundial. A language of light and shadow emerged from the cumulative diversity.’

Günther Uecker quoted in: Alexander Tolnay, Ed., Günther Uecker Twenty Chapters, Ostfildern-Ruit 2006, p. 72