PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION
Der Mustergatte (The ideal husband)
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Estimate
400,000 - 500,000 EUR
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION
Konrad Klapheck
1935 - 2023
Der Mustergatte (The ideal husband)
signed Klapheck (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm; 59 x 51⅛ in.
Executed in 1964.
The work is registered in the artist's unpublished catalog raisonné with the number 121. We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Elisa Klapheck for her kind support in cataloging this lot.
Galerie Aujourd’hui, Brussels
Pierre Janlet, Brussels (acquired from the above in September 1965)
Private Collection, Belgium
London, Fraser Gallery, Konrad Klapheck, 1964, no. 3, n.p., illustrated
Paris, Galerie Sonnabend, Konrad Klapheck, 1965, n.p., illustrated
Hanover, Kestnergesselschaft, Konrad Klapheck, 1966, no. 121
New York, MoMA; Houston, University St Thomas; and San Francisco, Museum of Art, The machine, 1969 - 1969, illustrated p. 191
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts; and Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Konrad Klapheck, 1974, no. 39, p. 100, illustrated p. 101
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Europalia 77, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1977
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, De quatrum à despuis ’45, 2007 - 2008, no. 100
Arts, Brussels, 24-30 November 1965 (titled Machine à écrire)
Chronique de l’Art vivant, no. 2, Brussels, May 1969, no. 21
Pierre José, Konrad Klapheck, Cologne, 1970, no. 121, n.p., illustrated (titled L'époux idéal)
Clé pour les Arts, Brussels, December 1974, no. 48