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Collecting Passions - 20th Century Masterworks from an Important Private Collection

Sigmar Polke

Alpenveilchen

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May 16, 01:17 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

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Collecting Passions - 20th Century Masterworks from an Important Private Collection

Sigmar Polke

1941 - 2010


Alpenveilchen

dispersion on canvas

66 ⅞ by 59 in.

170 by 150 cm.

Executed in 1967.

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich

Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt am Main

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1971)

Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above)

Christie's London, 4 October 2019, lot 8 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Axel Ciesielski and Claus von der Osten, eds., Sigmar Polke Plakate: Sammlung Ciesielski, Cologne 2013, p. 57, illustrated in color (in exhibition poster for Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Kunst nach 45 aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, 1983)

Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum Eindhoven, Sigmar Polke: Bilder - Tücher - Objekte - Werkauswahl 1962-1972, February - July 1976, no. 84, p. 50, illustrated (image inverted) 

Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Kunst nach 45 aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, July - November 1983, p. 293, illustrated in color and p. 421 (text)