Sale: 513 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, Dec. 11. 2020 in Munich Lot 9

 

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Norbert Bisky
Torera, 2006.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 97,500 / $ 105,300

(incl. surcharge)
Torera. 2006.
Oil on canvas.
Verso signed, dated and titled. 200 x 149 cm (78.7 x 58.6 in).

• Bisky is considered one of the most important contemporary artists of figurative painting
• One of the extremely rare female figure representations in the midst of the otherwise almost exclusively masculine imagery of Norbert Bisky
• Bisky is represented by the renowned König Galerie, Berlin / London / Tokyo.
• Works by Norbert Bisky can be found in important international museums of modern and contemporary art, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Berlin.
Private collection Schleswig-Holstein.

EXHIBITION: Norbert Bisky. Ich war’s nicht, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2007/08, full-page illu. on p. 61.

"At one point I realized I had painted 400 young men and only obne woman, so I had to practice,"
Norbert Bisky, 2007, quote from: www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/norbert-bisky-der-maler-die-maenner-und-eine-frau-fotostrecke-26016.html




9
Norbert Bisky
Torera, 2006.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 97,500 / $ 105,300

(incl. surcharge)