Live Auction 3062Post-War and Contemporary Art
Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Lot 35

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)

Gesanges - Wolken (Chanting - Clouds)

Closed21 April 2016

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EUR 127,500

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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Gesanges - Wolken (Chanting - Clouds)
titled 'Gesanges - Wolken' (left centre)
oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac, charcoal and iron object on photograph on cardboard
84 x 113.5cm.
Executed in 2011

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

`I work with symbols which link our consciousness with the past. The symbols create a kind of simultaneous continuity and we recollect our origins.' ( Anselm Kiefer quoted in M. Rosenthal, Anselm Kiefer, Philadelphia 1987, p. 10)