Lot 86A
  • 86A

Dieter Roth

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Dieter Roth
  • Thomkinspatent
  • silkscreen, six colours and vegetable juice on white cardboard in plastic, signed and numbered 21/50, published by Dieter Roth, Düsseldorf, Hartmut Kaminski, Düsseldorf
  • 72 by 102 cm.
  • Executed in 1968.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in June 1971

Exhibited

Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Sammlung Helga und Walther Lauffs - Amerikanische und europäische Kunst der sechziger und siebziger Jahre, 1983-84, p. 237, no. 305
Basel, Schaulager, Roth-Zeit. Eine Dieter Roth Retrospektive, May - September 2003, no. 272, another print

Literature

D. Rot[h], Gesammelte Werke, Bd. 40: Bücher und Grafik (1. Teil). Aus den Jahren 1947 bis 1971, Stuttgart/London/Reykjavik 1972, no. 101, illustrated, another print
D. Dobke, Melancholischer Nippes. Dieter Roth. Frühe Objekte und Materialbilder 1960 - 1975, Cologne 2002, p. 25, no. 1968.43, illustrated, another print

Condition

This work is in good condition. The work is very fragile. The original framing is detached from the backing along the top edge. The mould of the vegetable juice has slightly eaten the silkscreen in the middle of the work. Due to ageing the work is as original as can be.
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