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Renate Bertlmann
Gefährliche Brüste, 1975.
Mixed media. Plaster cast, pacifier, scalpel kn...
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,400 Sold:
€ 39,990 / $ 46,388 (incl. surcharge)
Renate Bertlmann
1943
Gefährliche Brüste. 1975.
Mixed media. Plaster cast, pacifier, scalpel knife, plexiglass cover.
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse, with the artist's studio label inscribed “5710522” by hand. 23.6 x 41.3 x 18.6 cm (9.2 x 16.2 x 7.3 in). [AW].
• Renate Bertlmann is a key figure in the Austrian avant-garde.
• In her work, she subverts gender stereotypes and explores themes such as the body, desire, and vulnerability.
• Bertlmann combines conceptual and pop culture approaches, transforms pornography and kitsch, and works experimentally in a wide range of media, from photography to installation.
• In 2019, she exhibited at the Austrian Pavilion at the 58th Biennale di Venezia.
• This work was part of the comprehensive retrospective “Renate Bertlmann. Fragile Obsessions” at the Belvedere in Vienna in 2023/24.
The work is listed on the artist's official website.
PROVENANCE: Collection of Prof. Dr. Heinz Althöfer, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (as a gift from the above in 2015).
EXHIBITION: Renate Bertlmann. Fragile Obsessionen, Belvedere, Vienna, Sep. 29, 2023-March 3, 2024 (illustrated on p. 79).
1943
Gefährliche Brüste. 1975.
Mixed media. Plaster cast, pacifier, scalpel knife, plexiglass cover.
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse, with the artist's studio label inscribed “5710522” by hand. 23.6 x 41.3 x 18.6 cm (9.2 x 16.2 x 7.3 in). [AW].
• Renate Bertlmann is a key figure in the Austrian avant-garde.
• In her work, she subverts gender stereotypes and explores themes such as the body, desire, and vulnerability.
• Bertlmann combines conceptual and pop culture approaches, transforms pornography and kitsch, and works experimentally in a wide range of media, from photography to installation.
• In 2019, she exhibited at the Austrian Pavilion at the 58th Biennale di Venezia.
• This work was part of the comprehensive retrospective “Renate Bertlmann. Fragile Obsessions” at the Belvedere in Vienna in 2023/24.
The work is listed on the artist's official website.
PROVENANCE: Collection of Prof. Dr. Heinz Althöfer, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (as a gift from the above in 2015).
EXHIBITION: Renate Bertlmann. Fragile Obsessionen, Belvedere, Vienna, Sep. 29, 2023-March 3, 2024 (illustrated on p. 79).
261
Renate Bertlmann
Gefährliche Brüste, 1975.
Mixed media. Plaster cast, pacifier, scalpel kn...
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,400 Sold:
€ 39,990 / $ 46,388 (incl. surcharge)
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