BLINKY PALERMO (1943-1977)

Zu "Treppenhaus" Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dsseldorf

Details

BLINKY PALERMO (1943-1977)
Zu "Treppenhaus" Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dsseldorf
titled 'Treppenhaus' (lower left), signed and dated 'Palermo 70' (lower right)
acrylic, black felt tip pen, graphite and photograph on packing paper, mounted on painted board and covered with Perspex
15¾ x 27½in. (40 x 70cm.)

Provenance

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne and Munich, where acquired by the present owner.
Long term loan to the Neue Galerie Staatliche Museen, Kassel, 1976-1997.

Literature

T. Moeller (ed.), "Palermo. Zeichnungen. Werkverzeichnis." II, no. 558, p. 388 (illustrated in colour).

Exhibited

Dsseldorf, Galerie Konrad Fischer, "Palermo. Treppenhaus, Wandmalerei", April- May 1970.
Munich, Lenbachhaus, "Bilder Objekte Filme Konzepte", April-May 1973, no. 193.
New York, Christie's, "Painting, Object, Film, Concept, Works from the Herbig Collection", Feb.-March 1998, no. 73 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour, p. 177).

Lot Essay

This work is from a series of circa 13 original works on paper revolving around the wall painting "Treppenhaus" in the Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dsseldorf in 1970. For the exhibition Palermo painted the true-to-life form of the stairwell of his appartment building in an ocre-olive tone onto the left-hand wall of the gallery, thus translating a three-dimensional, labrynth-like form into a two-dimensional surface.

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