Lot 169
  • 169

Konrad Klapheck

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konrad Klapheck
  • Das Geheimnis des Sex-Appeal (The Secret of Sex-Appeal)
  • titled in three languages on the stretcher; signed and dated 65 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 159.7 by 129.5cm.; 62 7/8 by 51in.

Provenance

Galleria Schwarz, Milan
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
McCrory Corporation Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Konrad Klapheck, 1966
Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, New Talent: Amsterdam, Paris, Dusseldorf, 1973

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the green is slightly brighter and warmer in the original.
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Catalogue Note

“As I work, I let myself be guided by my instinct, but I do nevertheless arrive at certain intelligible rules which, once again, I systematically utilize to explore my unconscious.”
Konrad Klapheck
Exhibition Catalogue, Milan, Galleria Schwarz, Klapheck, 1972, p. 8