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Details

Günther Förg (1952-2013)
Untitled
signed and dated ´Förg 90´ (on the reverse)
acrylic on lead on wood
71 3/8 x 43 ½in. (181.1 x 110.3cm.)
Executed in 1990

Provenance

Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 24 June 1999, lot 197.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

A Coruña, Fundacion Luis Seoane, Günther Förg. Verfolgen Malerei, 2014-2015 (illustrated in colour, pp. 67-69).

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.

Further Details

This work is recorded in the archive of Günther Förg as No. WVF.90.B.0528.
We thank Mr. Michael Neff from the Estate of Günther Förg for the information he has kindly provided on this work.

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Lot Essay

‘Colours emerge, the paintings become more open, and even the material’s arbitrary elements on the surface and in the patina become part of the picture’
–Günther Förg

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