Lot 6
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Blinky Palermo
Treppenhaus, 1970.
Ink
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 31,500 Sold:
€ 27,940 / $ 29,337 (incl. surcharge)
Treppenhaus. 1970.
Ink on blue square paper.
Lower right signed and dated. Lower left titled and inscribed "m 1:10". Collaged by the artist on six sheets of paper. 57.8 x 118.3 cm (22.7 x 46.5 in), size of sheet.
Construction drawing for one of Palermo's early murals, executed at Galerie Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf in the same year. [JS] .
• Construction drawing for one of Palermo's famous murals.
• Executed as a mural in emulsion paint over a width of 10 meters at Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, on the occasion of the exhibition "Palermo. Treppenhaus" (April 7 - September 2. 1970).
• Almost all of Palermo's legendary minimalist murals no longer exist and are only documented by drawings and photographic material.
• Outstanding testimony to Palermo's quest to trangress the boundaries of painting: The gallery became a real pictorial space through the spatial dissolution of the color.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich.
Private collection (acquired from the above).
LITERATURE: Cf. for the murals (selection):
Blinky Palermo, sediment. Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels, ed. by Zentralarchiv des deutschen Kunsthandels ZADIK, issue 15, Cologne 2008, pp. 18ff. and illu. doc. 2.4., p. 78.
Palermo. Werke 1963-1977, ex. cat. Kunstmuseum Winterthur / Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1984, fig. p. 79.
In good condition. With isolated traces from the creation and with traces of glue that also go back to the making. Even and faintly browned and with occasional faint traces of handling, finger marks and rubbings. Slightly wavy due to technique.
Ink on blue square paper.
Lower right signed and dated. Lower left titled and inscribed "m 1:10". Collaged by the artist on six sheets of paper. 57.8 x 118.3 cm (22.7 x 46.5 in), size of sheet.
Construction drawing for one of Palermo's early murals, executed at Galerie Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf in the same year. [JS] .
• Construction drawing for one of Palermo's famous murals.
• Executed as a mural in emulsion paint over a width of 10 meters at Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, on the occasion of the exhibition "Palermo. Treppenhaus" (April 7 - September 2. 1970).
• Almost all of Palermo's legendary minimalist murals no longer exist and are only documented by drawings and photographic material.
• Outstanding testimony to Palermo's quest to trangress the boundaries of painting: The gallery became a real pictorial space through the spatial dissolution of the color.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich.
Private collection (acquired from the above).
LITERATURE: Cf. for the murals (selection):
Blinky Palermo, sediment. Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels, ed. by Zentralarchiv des deutschen Kunsthandels ZADIK, issue 15, Cologne 2008, pp. 18ff. and illu. doc. 2.4., p. 78.
Palermo. Werke 1963-1977, ex. cat. Kunstmuseum Winterthur / Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1984, fig. p. 79.
In good condition. With isolated traces from the creation and with traces of glue that also go back to the making. Even and faintly browned and with occasional faint traces of handling, finger marks and rubbings. Slightly wavy due to technique.
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Blinky Palermo
Treppenhaus, 1970.
Ink
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 31,500 Sold:
€ 27,940 / $ 29,337 (incl. surcharge)
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