Gesanges - Wolken (Chanting - Clouds)

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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Gesanges - Wolken (Chanting - Clouds)
titled 'Gesanges - Wolken' (left centre)
oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac, charcoal and iron object on photograph on cardboard
84 x 113.5cm.
Executed in 2011

Provenance

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

`I work with symbols which link our consciousness with the past. The symbols create a kind of simultaneous continuity and we recollect our origins.' ( Anselm Kiefer quoted in M. Rosenthal, Anselm Kiefer, Philadelphia 1987, p. 10)

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