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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Lot 155 HOMAGE TO CHILLIDA

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)

Urd Werdand Skuld II (The Norns II)

Closed26 June 2013

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GBP 157,875

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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Urd Werdand Skuld II (The Norns II)
oil on canvas
130 x 72¾in. (330 x 185cm.)
Painted in 1980

Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 16 May 2001, lot 358.
Private Collection, Barcelona.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

Specialist note

'By creating a new step in the evolution, Kiefer showed that architectural conventions are but hollow containers, little more than superficial stylizations by which a culture celebrates its heroes.'
(M. Rosenthal, 'Visions of the New World: 1980 to 1987', in Anselm Kiefer, Salt of the Earth, exh. cat., Fondazione Vedova, Venice, 2011).