Lot 163
  • 163

Martin Kippenberger

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description

  • Martin Kippenberger
  • Untitled (Capri-Bild)
  • signed and dated 81 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 50 by 60cm.; 19 5/8 by 23 5/8 in.

Provenance

Collection Birgit Küng, Zürich
Private Collection, Switzerland

Exhibited

Zürich, Kunsthaus, Martin Kippenberger & Freunde. Frühe Bilder, Collagen, Objekte, die gesamten Plakate und späte Skulpturen, 1998

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is softer and warmer, with more grey undertones to the blue pigment and the bottom right rectangular patch of blue tending more towards turquoise in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is minor wear to all four corners. There are a few extremely short drying cracks to some of the thicker passages of orange paint. Upon close inspection only there is a small media accretion to the right of the lower part of the car windscreen and a small patch of very light discolouration to the top of the car and to the car bonnet . There are four light rub marks: a horizontal one to the centre of the rectangular turquoise patch, one to the centre of the left extreme edge, another 10 cm. to the right of this and one 5 cm. below the centre of the top extreme edge. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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