An Artist's Perspective: Property from the Collection of Anish Kapoor

Joseph Beuys

Ofen (Oven)

Artist's Resale Right

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October 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

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An Artist's Perspective: Property from the Collection of Anish Kapoor

Joseph Beuys

1921 - 1986

Ofen (Oven)

bronze

31.5 by 7.2 by 8.5 cm. 12½ by 2⅞ by 3⅜ in.

Executed in 1984, this work is one of ten different casts.

Galerie Kluser, Munich

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Joseph Beuys: Ideas and Actions, 1988, p. 11, illustrated in colour (cast no. unknown)

Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Beuys: zu Ehren, July – November 1986, p. 99, illustrated (cast no. unknown)

Westfalen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Joseph Beuys: Natur, Materie, Form, November 1991 – February 1992, n.p., no. 20, illustrated (cast no. unknown)

Houston, The Menil Collection; and London, Tate Modern, Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments, October 2004 – May 2005, p. 40, no. 39, illustrated in colour in installation (cast no. unknown)

London, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Joseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag Monuments, April – June 2018, p. 45, illustrated in colour (cast no. unknown)