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Details

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
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oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 23 5/8in. (50.5 x 60cm.)
Executed circa 1980s

Provenance

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist and thence by descent to the present owner).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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‘Kippi dances wildly over the plates and glasses, does the crazy-shuttle, bites a wineglass to pieces, swings from the chandelier, drops to the floor like a rock, unbuttons his pants, waggles his tongue like Gene Simmons from Kiss, babbles and blathers away, mutters and mumbles – he is the absolute epitome of the bold and reckless anarchist in the bourgeois wine-tasting gallerists’ imagination’ (J. Lottmann, quoted in S. Kippenberger, Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families, New York 2011, p. 248).

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