Bankfassade (Bank Façade)

Details

Thomas Huber (b. 1955)
Bankfassade (Bank Façade)
signed and dated 'Thomas Huber 1990' (lower right), titled 'Tafel 1 Arkade. die Bankfassade' (lower left)
acrylic and graphite on wood, in artist's frame
155 x 205cm.
Executed in 1990

Provenance

Achenbach Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992.

Literature

Kempfenhausen, Hilmer & Sattler, Francesca Gay, Jan Roth, Art & Language, Daniel Buren, Günther Förg, Ulrich Horndash, Thomas Huber, Axel Kasseböhmer, Munich 1993, no. TH 16 B 10 (illustrated in colour, p. 68).

Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Der Duft des Geldes, 1992 (another version, illustrated in colour, p. 17). This exhibition later travelled to Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover and Utrecht, Centraal Museum Utrecht.
Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Thomas Huber: Die Bank - Eine Wertvorstellung, 1992.

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. 21% VAT applies to both the hammer price and the buyer’s premium. The buyer’s premium is calculated for each lot as 25% of the hammer price up to a value of €200,000, plus 20% of the hammer price between €200,001 to €2,500,000, plus 13.5% of any amount in excess of €2,500,001.

Further Details

This work is recorded in the archives of Thomas Huber under number TH-1990-Z-15.

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'Are we not, artists and bankers, very similar? Changers, money multipliers, gold makers, dazzling speculators of appearance. Maybe even charlatans? Seducers by means of the promise of wondrous multiplication? We both paint the paintings of happier times. We are magicians of appearance. The creators and administrators of the binding values of our times.'
-Thomas Huber

Bankfassade (Bank Façade)

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