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Sigmar Polke
Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description
- Sigmar Polke
- Ohne Titel
signed and dated 1999
- gouache on paper
- 78 3/4 by 59 in. 200 by 150 cm.
Provenance
Private Collection, Germany (acquired directly from the artist)
Condition
This work appears in excellent condition overall. This work has not been examined out of the frame. Framed under Plexiglas.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"Polke's legacy is immense: he deflated the utopian pretensions of modernism, recognized the artistic potential of consumer society's most banal products, stirred together photography and psychedelics to startling effect, mined the earth and heavens for unorthodox materials, retrieved history as a vital subject for painting, created a new multilayered pictorial syntax, reconciled figuration and abstraction, and much, much more. He also offered, in a period of unprecedented spectacle and speculation, the model of an artist who lived not for the perks of success but for the thing itself, the work of art in all of its incisive, inexplicable wonderment." - Raphael Rubinstein ("Questions for Sigmar Polke, Art in America, October 2010)