Property from a Private Collection
Apparat, Mit Dem Eine Kartoffel Eine Andere Umkreisen Kann
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June 25, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Sigmar Polke
1941 - 2010
Apparat, Mit Dem Eine Kartoffel Eine Andere Umkreisen Kann
wood, battery-driven electric motor, rubber band, wire and potatoes
79 by 40 by 38.5 cm. 31⅛ by 15¾ by 15⅛ in.
Executed in 1969, this work is one of the first 10 works produced from an edition of 30, published by edition tangente, Heidelberg.
We thank Mr. Michael Trier for the information he has kindly provided on this work.
Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Art in Our Time: 1950 to the Present, 1999
Klaus Staeck, Sigmar Polke: Rasterfahndung, Gottingen 2011, no. 1, p. 143, illustration in colour of another example
Gloria Moure, Sigmar Polke: Paintings, Photographs and Films, Barcelona 2014, pp. 74-75, illustration of another example (installation view)
Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art and travelling, Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010, 2014, no. 94, p. 268, illustration in colour of another example
Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Sigmar Polke: Join the Dots, January - March 1995, p. 49, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Sigmar Polke: Alchemist, January - July 2001, p. 38, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Sigmar Polke: Editionen, July - September 2009, n.p., illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
Siegen, Museum Für Gegenwartskunst and Toulouse, Les Abatoirs, Sigmar Polke: Multiplication of Humour, April - June 2013, illustrated in colour on the cover; and p. 77, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
London, Michael Werner Gallery, Sigmar Polke, Objects: Real and Imagined, January - March 2020 (another example exhibited)
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