Modern & Contemporary Discoveries including Works from the former Claude and Georges Pompidou Collection

Sigmar Polke

German Pavilion, Venice Biennale

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5,000 - 7,000 EUR

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Sigmar Polke

1941 - 2010

German Pavilion, Venice Biennale

signed, dated 1986 and inscribed Biennale Venedig (au dos)

gelatin silver print toned with nitrate oxide

30 x 24 cm; 11 ¾ x 9 ½ in.

Executed in 1986, this work is unique.

Galerie Bama, Paris

Acquired in 1987 by the present owner

La Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris, Clair-Obscur, 4 mars - 24 août 2026, p. 56-59, other examples illustrated

Sigmar Polke Athanor, il Padiglione XLII Bienale di Venezia, Düsseldorf, 1986

This Venice Biennale series belongs to the alchemical experiments Polke was pursuing in painting and photography taking into account serendipity as a part of the process of creating.

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