Live Auction 14997Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Lot 835

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)

Blutblume

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 348,500

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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Blutblume
oil on lead and original photographs on board, with linen
book, closed: 24 x 18 ¼ x 3 ¼ in. (61 x 46.4 x 8.3 cm.)
book, open: 24 x 36 ½ x 3 ¼ in. (61 x 92.7 x 8.3 cm.)
Executed in 2001.

James Cohan Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007

Specialist note

“For Kiefer, art is an opening-up between order and chaos, between human and natural, between individuality and history, between heaven and earth. Through its function as a link that holds together opposites, these poles belong to each other. For this reason, the intimate reality of the artist is the original force that nourishes the tree of life, through which the human is connected to the natural, the terrestrial to the celestial.” (G. Celant, quoted in: ‘The Destiny of Art: Anselm Kiefer,’ Anselm Kiefer, Milan, 1997, p. 15)