Rosemarie Trockel

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

Rosemarie Trockel
Il Pleut
signed on the reverse
wool and painted wood
101 by 101 by 7cm.; 39 3/4 by 39 3/4 by 2 3/4 in.
Executed in 2010.

Provenance

Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the yellow is slightly less saturated in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

"In the '70s there were a lot of questionable women's exhibitions, mostly on the theme of house and home. I tried to take wool, which was viewed as a woman`s material, out of this context and to rework it in a neutral process of production."

Rosemarie Trockel in conversation with Isabelle Graw, Artforum, March 2003