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Jutta Koether (b. 1958)
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signed twice, titled twice, inscribed twice and dated twice 'J Koether mède Paris 1992' (on the reverse and stretcher); signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'KOETHER 92 PARIS' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
98½ x 78¾in. (250.2 x 200cm.)
Painted in 1992

Provenance

Galerie Buchholz, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

Exhibited

London, Saatchi Gallery, Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, pp. 88-89).

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Lot Essay

Koethers work defines painting as defiantly multipurpose; it provides pleasure, incites thought and questions assumptions about taste and technique. For much of the 1990s, she mixed graffiti-inspired brushwork [], fragmented images and assorted quotations on surfaces that had a vibrant, all-over undergrowth
(R. Smith, Jutta Koether, in The New York Times, 15 April 2005, https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html [accessed 10 September 2013]).

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