FM 29

Details

Albert Oehlen (b. 1954)
FM 29
signed and dated 'A. Oehlen 08' (on the reverse)
oil and paper collage on canvas
31 ½ x 23 5/8in. (80 x 60cm.)
Executed in 2008

Provenance

Valid Nutrition Benefit, Christie's London, 26 June 2013, lot 236 (donated by the artist).
Acquired at the above sale 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.

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Lot Essay

‘Oehlen attacks with paint the shallow clamour of transferred digital pixelation and, in some works, glued-on advertising posters. He wrestles their visual quiddities – how they look, irrespective of what they represent – down into the body and makes them groan.’
– Peter Schjeldahl

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