Lot 759
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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)

Flügel

Details
Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Flügel
oil, acrylic and emulsion on two joined sheets of photographic paper
44 x 32 in. (111.7 x 81.2 cm.)
Executed in 1981.
Provenance
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981
Exhibited
The Saint Louis Art Museum; Long Island City, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources (P.S.1); Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Expressions: New Art from Germany, June 1983-August 1984, p. 121 (illustrated).
Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Drawing as Itself, October-November 1989.
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Lot Essay

“For Kiefer, art is an opening-up between order and chaos, between human and natural, between individuality and history, between heaven and earth. Through its function as a link that holds together opposites, these poles belong to each other. For this reason, the intimate reality of the artist is the original force that nourishes the tree of life, through which the human is connected to the natural, the terrestrial to the celestial.” (G. Celant, quoted in: ‘The Destiny of Art: Anselm Kiefer,’ Anselm Kiefer, Milan, 1997, p. 15)

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