Important Works by Contemporary German Masters

Günther Uecker, Sandinsel (Sand Island), 1970.
Estimate: £600,000–800,000.

As part of the innovative ZERO group, Uecker regarded the nail as the perfect medium to express the movement’s ideas.

In Sandinsel, the shape of an island emerges from a composition of nails floating amidst a sea of sand, a reference to the artist’s own upbringing on the German peninsula of Wustrow in the Baltic Sea.

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Rosemarie Trockel, O.T. (Death’s Heads), 1990.
Estimate: £400,000–600,000.

O.T. (Death’s Heads) is a compelling example of Rosemarie Trockel’s critically acclaimed Strickbilder or ‘knitted pictures’.

The repeating single motif of a skull stitched across the work’s chequered surface playfully draws upon both the aesthetic and subversive nature of Pop art, most notably Andy Warhol’s duplicating coloured skulls.

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Gerhard Richter, Gelbgrün (Yellow-Green), 1982.
Estimate: £7,000,000–10,000,000.

Appearing at auction for the first time, Gelbrün (Yellow-Green) marks the true beginning of Richter’s ground-breaking Abstraktes Bilder, a career-defining engagement that now spans two-thirds of the artist’s output.

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Martin Kippenberger, Eifrau die man nicht schubladieren kann (Egg Lady Who Can’t Be Piegeonholed), 1996.
Estimate: £2,000,000–3,000,000.

Egg Lady Who Can’t Be Piegeonholed is one of the 23 egg-based works that were created in advance of Martin Kippenberger’s 1996 show at the Stätisches Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, and the ultimate exposition of the artist’s most deployed motif.

The egg had become Kippenberger’s calling card, his retort to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and Cézanne’s apple.

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Gerhard Richter, 1025 Farben, 1974.
Estimate: £5,000,000–7,000,000.

1025 Farben is from the final series of Farbtafeln that occupied Gerhard Richter throughout 1973 and 1974. Bereft of any figurative subject, the artist has pared down painting to its simplest form: colour.

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Albert Oehlen, Untitled.
Estimate: £1,000,000–1,500,000.

Reminiscent of Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning in his linear movement and sumptuous color, Albert Oehlen's Untitled sits within a period of radical experimentation when Oehlen constantly pushed and redefined the boundaries of painting via new technological and painterly endeavors.

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Sigmar Polke, Autounfall (Car Crash) or The Three Sisters, 1967.
Estimate: £1,500,000–2,000,000.

Sigmar Polke’s Autounfall (Car Crash) from 1967 belongs to the artist’s iconic 1960s Rasterbilder (Raster Paintings) and demonstrates a consummate balance between figuration and abstraction.

The work is situated at the apogee of Polke’s breakthrough moment, created when he was operating as a member of the group of German ‘Capitalist Realists’, which was opposed both to East German Socialist Realism and to American Pop art.

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Gerhard Richter, Wind. Estimate: £2,500,000–3,500,000.

Wind is an exceptional abstract work from an important phase of Gerhard Richter’s career that has been in the same private collection for 25 years.

It is an essay in colour; a perfect example of the artist’s ability to variegate texture, timbre, tone, and hue in order to create paintings of stunning quality and astounding complexity.

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Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 1984. Estimate: £350,000–£450,000.

Untitled is a significant work from the very earliest part of Albert Oehlen’s career. It stems from his Farbenlehre (Colour Theory) series – a body of work instigated in 1984 in the lead up to significant solo exhibitions at Gallerie Ascan Crone in Hamburg in 1985, and Galerie Max Hetzler in Cologne in 1986.

The works are reactive and rebellious; fizzing with conceptual conceit and executed with trademark dissidence.

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