Sale: 529 / Post War / Contemporary Art, June 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 244

 

244
Sigmar Polke
Untitled, 1988.
Gelatin silver print
Estimate:
€ 7,000 / $ 7,560
Sold:
€ 6,250 / $ 6,750

(incl. surcharge)
Untitled. 1988.
Gelatin silver print.
Lower left signed and dated. On glossy photo paper. 50.7 x 60.7 cm (19.9 x 23.8 in).
[AM].
• Dissolving the boundaries of photography.
• Liberation of photography from its traditional form.
• Polke makes photos of bizarre situations and objects.
• Ennobling the banal to a motif worth depicting.
• Polke's photographs are "improperly" shot, deliberately blurred and overexposed, and thus unique experiments
.

PROVENANCE: Berlin Projects, Berlin.
Private collection Great Britain (acquired from the above in 2001).




244
Sigmar Polke
Untitled, 1988.
Gelatin silver print
Estimate:
€ 7,000 / $ 7,560
Sold:
€ 6,250 / $ 6,750

(incl. surcharge)