Property from an Esteemed American Collection
Sigmar Polke
Skelett
Auction Closed
March 4, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sigmar Polke
1941 - 2010
Skelett
signed and dated 74 (on the stretcher)
dispersion, acrylic, and graphite on fabric
194 by 178.8 cm. 76⅜ by 70⅜ in.
Executed in 1974.
Doris and Charles Saatchi, London
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1991)
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Private Collection, Europe
David Zwirner, New York
Private Collection, Chicago
Acquired from the above in 2015 by the present owner
London, Tate Gallery, New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983, September – October 1983, p. 42, illustrated in colour
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich; and Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Sigmar Polke, April – October 1984, no. 102, p. 169 (checklist)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, December 1986 – January 1988, n.p. (checklist)
Muriel Emanuel, Sharon Harris, and Michael Held, eds., Contemporary Artists, New York 1983, p. 747, illustrated
Rudi Fuchs, Hilton Kramer, and Peter Schjeldahl, Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, vol. III, London 1984, no. 73, n.p., illustrated in colour
Edward Booth-Clibborn, Richard Cork, eds., The History of The Saatchi Gallery, London 2011, p. 165, illustrated in colour
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