Lot 191
  • 191

Rosemarie Trockel

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rosemarie Trockel
  • Untitled (Hammer & Sickle)
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 86 on the reverse

  • knitted wool on wooden stretcher
  • 115 by 25.5cm.; 45 1/4 by 10in.
  • Executed in 1986, this work is unique.

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, USA
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Lilian Haberer & Charlotte Kraft, Catalogue Raisonné of Wool Works and Works Related to Wool' in: Exhibition Catalogue, Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Rosemarie Trockel: Post-Menopause, 2006, p. 157, no. RT 1460, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly deeper and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a tiny and unobtrusive pulled thread 1.5 cm. in from the upper centre of the right extreme edge.
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