Sigmar Polke

Collection Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (acquired directly from the artist)

McCaffrey Fine Art, New York

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 2011)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 28 June 2016, lot 23 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Sigmar Polke: Neue Bilder 1992, November 1992 – January 1993, p. 27 (checklist) (titled Rotblauer Fisch)

Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, April 1994 – December 2004 (extended loan)

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Sammlung Frieder Burda: Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, September – November 1996, no. 63, p. 157, illustrated in colour 

Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda; and Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Polke: Eine Retrospektive, February – October 2007, no. 46, pp. 72-73, illustrated in colour

New York, McCaffrey Fine Art, Sigmar Polke, January – February 2011

New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Threads of Metamorphosis: Fabric Pictures by Sigmar Polke, November 2014 – January 2015, pp. 26-27, illustrated in colour

Bice Curiger, “Sigmar Polke: Die Rückseite der Dinge,” Parkett, no. 40/41, Zurich 1994, p. 128, illustrated in colour

Isabel Greschat, ed., Sammlung Frieder Burda, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, no. 145, p. 227, illustrated in colour