Otello vor tanzenden Vasen

Details

Markus Lüpertz (b. 1941)
Otello vor tanzenden Vasen
signed with the artist's monogram (upper left); signed with the artist's monogram and titled 'Otello vor tanzenden Vasen' (on the reverse)
oil and canvas on canvas
210 x 172 cm. (including artist's frame)
Painted in 1996

Provenance

Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996.

Exhibited

Salzburg, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Markus Lüpertz. Otello, 30 March-18 May 1996 (illustrated).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

'The general opinion of my art is that it is rejected. I attribute this to a lack of intelligence among the people.'
(Markus Lupertz quoted in M. Slackman, 'Artist Puts Hercules, and Himself, on Pedestals', in: The New York Times, 29 October 2010, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/world/europe/30lupertz.html?pagewante d=all&_r=0 visited 22 September 2014)

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