Live Auction 15805Post-War and Contemporary Art
A. R. Penck (1939-2017)
Lot 37

A. R. Penck (1939-2017)

Bedrängt (Embattled)

Closed24 April 2018

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EUR 81,250

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A. R. Penck (1939-2017)
Bedrängt (Embattled)
signed 'ar. penck' (lower left)
acrylic on canvas
60 x 90cm.
Painted in 1997

Private Collection, Germany (acquired directly from the artist in 1998).
Private Collection, Switzerland.

Specialist note

‘Pictures and thoughts belong together. I think in pictures before I think in speech. Before I think in pictures I think in abstract motions. The content of such motions is abstract gesture. Such abstract gesture are what interest me’ - A. R. Penck