Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
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Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)

Untitled

Details
Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Sigmar Polke 85' (lower left)
metallic paint, acrylic and artificial resin on paper
29 3/8 x 39 1/8in. (70 x 99.5cm.)
Executed in 1985
Provenance
Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz Cologne, 24 May 2013, lot 547.
Private Collection, Denmark.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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
We are grateful to Michael Trier from the Estate of Sigmar Polke for the information he has kindly provided.

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Lot Essay

‘ [Polke’s] work emanates the stuff of life – it’s music. His work is a font of ideas. Any one move can provide a career for a lesser artist. He is a font; a treasury. The roller coaster ride he takes one on with various stops for high and low culture is unpredictable, brash, and irreverent. Giotto and Matisse have long been in my pantheon. I’m thinking of adding a third – Polke. He makes me glad that I’m an artist.’
– John Baldessari

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