PER KIRKEBY | OHNE TITEL [UNTITLED]

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July 16, 04:10 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PER KIRKEBY

1938 - 2018

OHNE TITEL [UNTITLED]

oil on canvas

Canvas: 45¾ by 37½ in. (116.2 by 95.3 cm.)

Framed: 47 by 38¾ in. (119.3 by 98.4 cm.)

Executed in 1984.

Michael Werner, Cologne

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Ane Hejlskov Larsen, Ed., Per Kirkeby: Paintings 1978-1989, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, Cologne 2017, no. M773

Freiburg, Kunstverein, Schwarzes Kloster, Per Kirkeby: Bilder und Skulpturen, May – June 1987

Valencia, Centre del Carme, Per Kirkeby, December 1989 - February 1990, no. 29

"I have always been an outsider, but now it seems it might not have been so bad. I always thought that an artist should not be easy to 'catch,' to 'put in a box.'"

- Per Kirkeby