Anselm Kiefer

Sefer Hechaloth

Alternate Warehouse

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg

Anselm Kiefer

b. 1945

Sefer Hechaloth

titled (upper left)

oil, emulsion, acrylic, metal shelves and burned books on 2 joined canvases

overall: 147 ½ by 130 in.

374.7 by 330.2 cm.

Executed in 2002.

Please note this lot will be available for collection from Dun-Rite following the auction and the successful purchaser will be responsible for collection, shipping, and release fees. Please contact Sotheby's Client Experience US.CX@sothebys.com with any questions.

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Anselm Kiefer: Merkaba, November - December 2002, pp. 92-95, illustrated in color

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Musée d'Art contemporain à Montréal; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth, September 2005 - January 2007, p. 121, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Anselm Kiefer, 2007, no. 170, p. 384, illustrated in color