Live Auction 12159Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Sale
Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Lot 453 Property from an American Collection

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)

Lilith

Closed16 November 2016

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USD 175,000

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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Lilith
titled 'Lilith' (on the cover); inscribed 'La belle' (on the back cover)
ashes, acrylic and chemise on original photographs on cardboard and artist's metal stand
book, closed: 40 x 28 x 3 1/4 in. (101.6 x 71.1 x 8.2 cm.)
book, open: 40 x 55 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (101.6 x 140.9 x 3.8 cm.)
artist's stand: 46 1/2 x 60 x 36 in. (118.1 x 152.4 x 91.4 cm.)
12 pages
Executed in 1990.

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994

Specialist note

“For Kiefer, art is an opening-up between order and chaos, between human and natural, between individuality and history, between heaven and earth. Through its function as a link that holds together opposites, these poles belong to each other. For this reason, the intimate reality of the artist is the original force that nourishes the tree of life, through which the human is connected to the natural, the terrestrial to the celestial.” (G. Celant, quoted in: ‘The Destiny of Art: Anselm Kiefer,’ Anselm Kiefer, Milan, 1997, p. 15)