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Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Lot 142

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)

Untitled

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 80,500

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Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Untitled
oil on canvas
39 1/8 x 47in. (99.5 x 119.5cm.)
Painted in 1988

Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1989).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 13 October 2012, lot 132.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘‘Anything he encountered, experienced, or observed, whether people, ideas, or images, could elicit a work. No subject was sacred, and Kippenberger drew equally from popular culture, art, architecture, music, politics, history, and his own life and work as sources, styles and subjects. Kippenberger embraced failure as a generative strategy’ (A. Goldstein, ‘The Problem Perspective’, in Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008, p.39).