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Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997)

Superserpent

Price realised EUR 162,500
Estimate
EUR 15,000 – EUR 20,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997)

Superserpent

Price realised EUR 162,500
Closed: 26 Nov 2019
Price realised EUR 162,500
Closed: 26 Nov 2019
Details
Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997)
Superserpent
signed and dated 'Kiki Kogelnik 74' (lower right); signed, titled, and dated '„SUPERSERPENT„ KIKI KOGELNIK 1974' (on the reverse)
oil and acrylic on canvas
195 x 150cm.
Painted in 1974
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1975.
Literature
D. Shirey, ‘A Stunning Collection From Vienna‘, in: The New York Times, February 26, 1978, p. 18.
A. Waldron, ‘Nothing Schmaltzy About this Show’, in: Philadelphia Tribune, February 26, 1978.
R. Knoche, Kunstmarkt – Die Top Thirty in der Kunst, Vienna 1999, (illustrated, p. 152).
Exhibited
Vienna, Zentralsparkasse der Gemeinde Wien, Examples of Contemporary Austrian Painting and Prints, 1976. (illustrated, p. 26).
Princeton, Squibb Gallery, Contemporary Austrian Painting, 1978. This exhibition later travelled to New York, Gallery of the Union.
Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, Begegnungen – eine Gemeinschaftsausstellung österreichischer und ungarischer Künstler, 1988 (illustrated, p. 30).
Vienna, Volkshalle des Wiener Rathauses, Ins Licht gerückt – Ein Museum auf Abruf, 1991, p. 13 (illustrated, p. 50).
Vienna, Palais Harrach, Perspektiven: Kunst und Virtual Reality – Bilder aus der Sammlung der Bank Austria, 1998, p. 171 (illustrated, p. 47).
Krems, Kunsthalle Krems, Kiki Kogelnik. Retrospective, 2013 (illustrated, p. 165).
Vienna, Kunstforum Wien, Images of Women? Collected #8, 2019.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. 21% VAT applies to both the hammer price and the buyer’s premium. The buyer’s premium is calculated for each lot as 25% of the hammer price up to a value of €200,000, plus 20% of the hammer price between €200,001 to €2,500,000, plus 13.5% of any amount in excess of €2,500,001.
Further details
We thank Anna Sauer from the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation for the information she has kindly provided on this work.

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