Lot 124000239 
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124000239
Konrad Klapheck
Die Fragen der Sphinx, 1984.
Charcoal and blue pen on transparent paper
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 42,800 - 64,200
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Die Fragen der Sphinx. 1984.
Charcoal and blue pen on transparent paper.
Signed and dated in lower left. 121 x 114 cm (47.6 x 44.8 in), the full sheet.
Preliminary drawing in same size for the painting "Die Fragen der Sphinx" (1984), today on loan at the Musée de Grenoble from an important corportae collection. [JS].
• Klapheck is renowned as the inventor and master of the "machine picture", which he sees as a mirror of human existence.
• Exhibited together with the painting of the same title in the "Konrad Klapheck/Gustave Moreau" exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 2008.
• While Klapheck's "super-representational" paintings fascinate with their maximum perfection, Klapheck's "preliminary drawings" are unique testimonies to the underlying, meticulous complex creative process.
• Klapheck's drawings are the "witnesses of [his] struggle with their sweaty smell of desperate searching and groping" (K. Klapheck, 1982).
PROVENANCE: Art dealer Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf (with the label on the frame).
Private collecton North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 1991).
EXHIBITION: Konrad Klapheck/Gustave Moreau, Musée d`Orsay, Paris, June 3 - September 14, 2008.
Konrad Klapheck 2007, in: Bilder und Texte, Düsseldorf 2013, p. 138.
Charcoal and blue pen on transparent paper.
Signed and dated in lower left. 121 x 114 cm (47.6 x 44.8 in), the full sheet.
Preliminary drawing in same size for the painting "Die Fragen der Sphinx" (1984), today on loan at the Musée de Grenoble from an important corportae collection. [JS].
• Klapheck is renowned as the inventor and master of the "machine picture", which he sees as a mirror of human existence.
• Exhibited together with the painting of the same title in the "Konrad Klapheck/Gustave Moreau" exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 2008.
• While Klapheck's "super-representational" paintings fascinate with their maximum perfection, Klapheck's "preliminary drawings" are unique testimonies to the underlying, meticulous complex creative process.
• Klapheck's drawings are the "witnesses of [his] struggle with their sweaty smell of desperate searching and groping" (K. Klapheck, 1982).
PROVENANCE: Art dealer Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf (with the label on the frame).
Private collecton North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 1991).
EXHIBITION: Konrad Klapheck/Gustave Moreau, Musée d`Orsay, Paris, June 3 - September 14, 2008.
Konrad Klapheck 2007, in: Bilder und Texte, Düsseldorf 2013, p. 138.
124000239
Konrad Klapheck
Die Fragen der Sphinx, 1984.
Charcoal and blue pen on transparent paper
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 42,800 - 64,200
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
