Untitled

Details

Tomma Abts (B. 1967)
Untitled
signed, titled and dated 'ohne Titel, 1999, Tomma Abts' (on the reverse)
watercolour on paper
11 ¾ x 8 ¼in. (29.7 x 21cm.)
Executed in 1999

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe.

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Lot Essay

“Though I give some forms a sculptural definition, I then contradict it again, to keep every part of the painting’s space engaged in some ambiguous connectedness.” (Abts, Tomma and Peter Doig. ‘Peter Doig/ Tomma Abts.’ Wrong Times, The Wrong Gallery, 2004).

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