Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
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Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)

>>.....Höhere Wesen befehlen.....Higher Beings Ordain<<)

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Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
>>.....Höhere Wesen befehlen<< (>>.....Higher Beings Ordain<<)
offset lithograph, in fifteen parts
each: 11 2/3 x 8 ¼in. (29.7 x 20.9cm.)
Executed in 1968, this work is number fifteen from an edition of thirty published by René Block, Berlin
Provenance
Editions René Block, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
J. Becker and C. von der Osten, eds., Sigmar Polke: The Editioned Works 1963-2000 Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, no. 8 (another from the edition illustrated on the cover and pp. 23 & 26-39).
A. Brooks, Subjective Realities, Works from the Refco Collection of Contemporary Photography, Chicago 2003 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 190-193).
K. Halbreich (ed.), Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010, exh. cat, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2014 (another from the edition illustrated on the inside front cover, pp. 103 & 265).
Exhibited
Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Bilder Objekte Filme Konzepte, 1973, no. 209 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated, p. 141).
Frankfurt, Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Sigmar Polke: Early Prints 1967-1976, 1996 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 26-28).
Siegen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Sigmar Polke. Die Vervielfältigung des Humors Die Editionen in der Sammlung Axel Ciesielski, 2013-2014 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 48-53). This exhibition later travelled to Toulouse, Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées.
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.
Further details
Another from the edition is in the collection of Lambrecht Schadeberg/Rubenspreisträger der Stadt Siegen.

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