Sale: 541 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, June 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 114

 

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Blinky Palermo
Blaues Dreieck, 1969/70.
Multiple. An original stencil drawing and a ste...
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)
Blaues Dreieck. 1969/70.
Multiple. An original stencil drawing and a stencil, a brush and a tube of paint, with text- and title sheet. Released in "edition 21" by Galerie René Block, Berlin 1969.
The original is signed, dated "70" and numbered. From an edition of 50 copies, each with a numbered, manually executed stencil drawing, also numbered in imprint. On off-white wove paper. Drawing: 48.5 x 53.6 cm (19 x 21.1 in), size of sheet. Cardboard box: ca. 50 x 65 x 4,5 cm (19,7 x 25,6 x 1,8 in).
In the original cardboard box with cut-out. Complete. [JS].
• Famous multiple that confidently and humorously raises questions about artistic originality: "Use the stencil to paint a / blue triangle over the door. Then / give away the original sheet. Palermo / August 1969" (transl. of text on the accompanying sheet) .
• Numerous legendary multiples have been published by Galerie René Block, Berlin, since 1966, e.g. by Blinky Palermo, Joseph Beuys and Sigmar Polke, which take account of the contemporary quest for a democratization of art in the form of small editions.
• Along with Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, the progressive oeuvre of Blinky Palermo, who died in an accident in 1977, is one of the most important positions in German art of the 1960s and 1970s, .
• Other copies of this famous multiple can be found at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main
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PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

"Palermo made several works using isosceles triangles, starting with Tagtraum I 1965 and culminating in Blaues Dreieck, which was installed at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1970, where blue triangles were painted onto the walls and evenly spaced. In his essay 'The Palermo Triangles' art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh has related the shapes to the triangular forms in pre-war utopian constructivist abstraction and to Joseph Beuys's Fat Corner of 1963 (see Buchloh, 'The Palermo Triangles', in Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2010). Buchloh has also emphasised the importance of the work Yves Klein to Palermo in the latter's use of ultramarine. Palermo is one of the most important artists to have emerged in Germany in the 1960s."

Mark Godfrey, for The Tate Collection zu Palermos "Blaues Dreieck", quoted from: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/palermo-blaues-dreieck-t13802




114
Blinky Palermo
Blaues Dreieck, 1969/70.
Multiple. An original stencil drawing and a ste...
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)