Auction 517
Evening Sale, Modern, Post War & Contemporary
By VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Jun 5, 2024
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Terms of sale
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Evening Sale: Wednesday, 5 June 2024
From 6 pm
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LOT 8:
Sigmar Polke: Untitled
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Sold for: €65,000
Start price:
€
48,000
Estimated price :
€60,000 - €80,000
Buyer's Premium: 35%
VAT: 19%
On commission only
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Sigmar Polke: Untitled
POLKE, SIGMAR
1941 Oels/Lower Silesia - 2010 Cologne
Title: Untitled.
Date: 1968.
Technique: Watercolour and spray paint on vellum.
Measurement: 95 x 63cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: S. Polke (slightly faded).
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
The work is registered with the Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne.
Provenance:
- Private collection Johannes Brus (directly from the artist 1969)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (by donation in the mid-1970s)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (by donation 2010)
- Beautiful, subtle depiction of a couple from the artist's early work
- In private family ownership since the 1960s and offered on the art market for the first time
- With just a few strokes and pictorial elements, Polke succeeds in creating an astonishingly intimate and narratively dense composition
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Explanations to the Catalogue
Sigmar Polke
Germany
Capitalistic Realism
New Realism
Post-War Art
Post War
1960s
Framed. Not examined out of the frame
Figure / Figures
Works on paper
Mixed media
Shapes
