Lot 206
  • 206

Martin Kippenberger

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Martin Kippenberger
  • Keiner hilft Keinem
  • titled
  • oil on canvas
  • 100 by 120 cm. 39 3/8 by 47 in.
  • Executed in 1993.

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the artist)
Sotheby's, London, Contemporary Art, 22 June 2007, Lot 256
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Berlin, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Private/Corporate III. Werke aus der Sammlung Daimler Chrysler und aus der Sammlung Heliod Spiekermann, 2005, pp. 9 and 31, illustrated in colour

Literature

Gisela Capitain, Regina Fiorito & Lisa Franzen, Eds., Martin Kippenberger: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume 4 1993-1997, p. 87, no. MK.P 1993.21, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is brighter and more vibrant and contains more mint green undertones in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There are a few networks of faint and stable drying cracks isolated in the thinner areas of green pigment. Very close inspection reveals a faint rub mark to the extreme upper edge towards the upper left corner tip and some wear along the upper edge. Further very close inspection reveals a few tiny fly spots in isolated places along the upper edge. Visible only in raking light, are very faint stretcher bar impressions along the horizontal edges. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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