Crosta Relief

Details

A. R. Penck (1939-2017)
Crosta Relief
incised with the artist's signature 'AR PENK' and with Frank Breidenbruch's signature 'Briedenbruch' (lower edge of lower left part)
engraved Carrara marble, in ten parts
overall: 380 x 340 x 5cm.
Executed in 1994

Provenance

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt.
Private Collection, Luxembourg.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.

Literature

N. Acker, G. Werner, A. R. Penck: Menschen und Tiere nach der Öffnung, Übermalungen 1989-91, Wiesbaden 2003 (illustrated in colour, p. 313).

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.

Sale Room Notice

Please note that this work is illustrated in the following literature: N. Acker, G. Werner, A. R. Penck: Menschen und Tiere nach der Öffnung, Übermalungen 1989-91, Wiesbaden 2003 (illustrated in colour, p. 313).

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Lot Essay

'When I was 13, I painted in an Impressionist manner, later it was more Expressionist - I went through the whole of art history... Then I was faced with the decision of either taking the path of stressing details, which would have taken me in the direction of Pop Art, or pursuing an abstracted representation of systems. This representation of systems is the result of abstraction, reduction and logic' - A. R. Penck

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