Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 516

 

516
Markus Lüpertz
Komposition, 1984.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 39,370 / $ 42,519

(incl. surcharge)
Komposition. 1984.
Oil on canvas.
Upper left monogrammed. Verso of the canvas signed, titled and dated "1984 N.Y." and with the crossed-out title "Stilleben". 100 x 80.5 cm (39.3 x 31.6 in).

• Markus Lüpertz is one of the key figures in German post-war art.
• Made in New York in 1984.
• Privately-owned since 1987
• In 2017 the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (DC) showed "Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History", the artist's first grand retrospective exhibition in the USA
.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne (with a label on verso of the stretcher).
Galerie Neher, Essen.
Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate.

EXHIBITION: Blickpunkte: Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert nach 1950, vol. 2, Galerie Neher, 1987, p. 60/61 (with color illu.).




516
Markus Lüpertz
Komposition, 1984.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 39,370 / $ 42,519

(incl. surcharge)