Lot 136
  • 136

Martin Kippenberger

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Martin Kippenberger
  • We Don't Have Problems... 30
  • c-print
  • 105.1 by 186.4 cm. 41 3/8 by 73 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1989.

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, United States
Christie's, New York, 17 May 2007, Lot 539
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the yellow is slightly darker in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals a small crease towards the centre upper edge, with a few small surface irregularities.
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Catalogue Note

“My father said that if I wanted to be an artist, I'd have to find my own style. That was the hardest thing of all for me. Finding my own style, I got very stuck until I suddenly realised that having no style is also a style, so that's what I did. That set me free. Don't worry about style but about what you want to say.”

Martin Kippenberger

quoted in “Parachever Picasso/Completing Picasso: Interview between Martin Kippenberger and Daniel Baumann,” Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Martin Kippenberger, 2006, p. 59