Untitled

细节

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Untitled
wax crayon and graphite on paper
16½ x 27½in. (42 x 70cm.)
Executed circa 1972

来源

Bettina Herfeldt-Kippenberger, Berlin.

展览

Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Martin Kippenberger, 1998-1999.
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Martin Kippenberger: Selbstbildnisse, The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika", Laternen etc., 1999, no. 1 (illustrated, p. 17).

注意事项

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.

荣誉呈献

Alice de Roquemaurel

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拍品专文

Executed in 1972 in a cornucopia of coloured wax crayon, Untitled is a psychedelic self-portrait carried out in the same year that Kippenberger began his studies at the Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg. Uniting two side profiles of the artist and a full frontal depiction of his face, Kippenberger has rendered his young, handsome, aquiline features with the greatest care, rending his hair with a rainbow palette of indigo through brilliant orange to lime green. The resulting image is one that recalls David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, with his glam rock aesthetic. Falling beneath the artist's placid stare, Kippenberger has drawn a languishing female nude, her head replaced by a stopwatch whose time has been suspended. It is an oneiric image that perfectly captures the Zeitgeist of the 1970s, the room revolving like a vivid hallucination.