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Sigmar Polke
Schreibtisch mit Akt, 1979.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 81,200 - 104,400
Sigmar Polke
1941 - 2010
Schreibtisch mit Akt. 1979.
Mixed media.
Signed and dated in the lower left. On firm wove paper. 99.7 x 69.7 cm (39.2 x 27.4 in). [EH].
• Explicitly vulgar, pornographic depiction - pure provocation, even in the late 1970s.
• In Polke's signature “layering” technique.
• Sigmar Polke is one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
• Sigmar Polke is exclusively represented by the David Zwirner Gallery.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Paris.
Private collection, Berlin (1994, Sotheby's, New York).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, auction 6617, Nov. 2, 1994, lot 236 a.
Sigmar Polke in an interview mit Bice Curiger, Parkett, no. 26, Zürich 1990, p. 15.
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 18.22 h +/- 20 min.
1941 - 2010
Schreibtisch mit Akt. 1979.
Mixed media.
Signed and dated in the lower left. On firm wove paper. 99.7 x 69.7 cm (39.2 x 27.4 in). [EH].
• Explicitly vulgar, pornographic depiction - pure provocation, even in the late 1970s.
• In Polke's signature “layering” technique.
• Sigmar Polke is one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
• Sigmar Polke is exclusively represented by the David Zwirner Gallery.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Paris.
Private collection, Berlin (1994, Sotheby's, New York).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, auction 6617, Nov. 2, 1994, lot 236 a.
Sigmar Polke in an interview mit Bice Curiger, Parkett, no. 26, Zürich 1990, p. 15.
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 18.22 h +/- 20 min.
Sigmar Polke is one of the most important German artists of the post-war period. His work is characterized by irony, media complexity, and a constant questioning of aesthetic and social norms. In the 1960s and 1970s, he intensively explored images of mass culture, including pornographic motifs taken from magazines, advertising, and print media.
Polke's approach to pornographic subjects is never affirmative, but always analytical and subversive. He transfers his relevant image templates into painterly or printmaking processes, thereby exposing the mechanisms of visual desire. For him, pornography becomes, for example, an ideological visual language that negotiates power, consumption, and gender. He is thus a pioneer of a thematic discussion that continues to concern us today.
Polke combines the erotic/pornographic with the political: the supposedly offensive serves as a mirror of social taboos and as a critique of the mass media's image production in a hierarchically structured consumer society.
Polke's approach to pornographic subjects is never affirmative, but always analytical and subversive. He transfers his relevant image templates into painterly or printmaking processes, thereby exposing the mechanisms of visual desire. For him, pornography becomes, for example, an ideological visual language that negotiates power, consumption, and gender. He is thus a pioneer of a thematic discussion that continues to concern us today.
Polke combines the erotic/pornographic with the political: the supposedly offensive serves as a mirror of social taboos and as a critique of the mass media's image production in a hierarchically structured consumer society.
342
Sigmar Polke
Schreibtisch mit Akt, 1979.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 81,200 - 104,400
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Sigmar Polke "Schreibtisch mit Akt"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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