SIGMAR POLKE | WEISSER OBELISK (WHITE OBELISK)

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

650,000 - 850,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Dr. Herbert Kiel, Cologne

SIGMAR POLKE

1941 - 2010

WEISSER OBELISK (WHITE OBELISK)

dispersion on printed fabric

90 by 75 cm. 35½ by 29½ in.

Executed in 1968.

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne

Dr. Herbert Kiel, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1974)

Thence by descent to the present owner

T. McEvilly, ‘Flower Power or Trying to Say the Obvious about Sigmar Polke’, Parkett, Vol. 30, 1991, p. 44, illustrated

Anon.,'Kunst und Humor', Kunstforum International, Vol. 120, 1992, illustrated in colour (cover) and p. 2

G. Moure, Sigmar Polke: Paintings, Photographs and Films, Barcelona 2014, p. 42, illustrated in colour