Live Auction 1559Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Lot 246

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)

Untitled

Closed17 October 2014

Price Realised

GBP 278,500

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Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Untitled
oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 23 5/8in. (50.5 x 60cm.)
Executed circa 1980s

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist and thence by descent to the present owner).

Specialist note

‘Kippi dances wildly over the plates and glasses, does the crazy-shuttle, bites a wineglass to pieces, swings from the chandelier, drops to the floor like a rock, unbuttons his pants, waggles his tongue like Gene Simmons from Kiss, babbles and blathers away, mutters and mumbles – he is the absolute epitome of the bold and reckless anarchist in the bourgeois wine-tasting gallerists’ imagination’ (J. Lottmann, quoted in S. Kippenberger, Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families, New York 2011, p. 248).