Albert Oehlen (b. 1954)
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Albert Oehlen (b. 1954)

Self Portrait

Details
Albert Oehlen (b. 1954)
Self Portrait
oil and mirror on canvas
23 5/8 x 23 5/8in. (60 x 60cm.)
Executed in 1983
Provenance
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich.
Literature
Albert Oehlen: Self Portraits, exh. cat., New York, Skarstedt Fine Art, 2001 (illustrated in colour pp. 40-41).

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Lot Essay

‘At the time I posed the self-portrait as a problem for myself in my search for new levels of difficulty, precisely because there’s a huge historical apparatus attached to it, and because it makes you think of art, of seriousness and meaning… Strangely, I have the feeling that my self-portraits are different from all the self-portraits by others. I forget that quite a few painters have had equally crazy experimental setups that led them to paint self-portraits’ (A. Oehlen, quoted in R. Goetz, ’Self Portait with Open Mouth: New Conversations about Painting’, in Albert Oehlen: Self Portraits, exh. cat., Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001-2002, pp. 48 and 70).

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