Live Auction 15805Post-War and Contemporary Art
A. R. Penck (1939-2017)
Lot 39

A. R. Penck (1939-2017)

Crosta Relief

Closed24 April 2018

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EUR 187,500

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A. R. Penck (1939-2017)
Crosta Relief
incised with the artist's signature 'AR PENK' and with Frank Breidenbruch's signature 'Briedenbruch' (lower edge of lower left part)
engraved Carrara marble, in ten parts
overall: 380 x 340 x 5cm.
Executed in 1994

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt.
Private Collection, Luxembourg.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.

Specialist note

'When I was 13, I painted in an Impressionist manner, later it was more Expressionist - I went through the whole of art history... Then I was faced with the decision of either taking the path of stressing details, which would have taken me in the direction of Pop Art, or pursuing an abstracted representation of systems. This representation of systems is the result of abstraction, reduction and logic' - A. R. Penck