Geist und Blutlache

Details

Katharina Fritsch (b. 1956)
Geist und Blutlache
painted polyester, Plexiglas and lacquer
(i) ghost: 79 x 24 x 24in. (200 x 61 x 61cm.); (ii) lacquer: 83 x 22in. (210 x 56cm.)
Executed in 1988, this work is from an edition of three

Provenance

Johnen & Schöttle Galerie, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Carnegie International, exh. cat., Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, 1988 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 171).
Weitersehen, exh. cat., vol. I, Krefeld, Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters, 1990 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 70-71).
J. Heynen, 'Speculations on Trucks, Cemeteries, Foxes, and Other Images,' in: Parkett, 1990, no. 25, (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 52).
S. Henger & P. Schimmel (eds.), Objectives. The new sculpture, exh. cat., Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 64-65).
Sleeper. Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Guillermo Kuitca, Doris Salcedo, San Diego 1995 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, on the cover and pp. 16-17).
Private View: Contemporary Art in the Bowes Museum, exh. cat.; Durham 1996 (another from the edition illustrated on the cover).
Auf der spur. Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen, exh. cat., Zurich, Kunsthalle, 1998 (another from the edition illustrated).
Katharina Fritsch, exh. cat.; San Francisco 1997 no. 76, pl. 18 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 124).
Katharina Fritsch, exh. cat.; Tate Modern, London 2001 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 79, 82 & 99, and in colour pp. 80-81).

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Lot Essay

"Why should a ghost look like that? Actually we have no idea what they look like. I find it interesting that in this work I have made something real that does not in fact exist." (Katharina Fritsch, quoted in www.tate.org.uk)

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