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THE COLLECTION OF SENATOR AND MRS. THOMAS F. EAGLETON
SIGMAR POLKE (1941-2010)
Wir sind die Zigarren (We Are the Cigars)
Details
SIGMAR POLKE (1941-2010)
Wir sind die Zigarren (We Are the Cigars)
titled 'Wir sind die Zigarren' (lower left)
ballpoint pen and watercolour on paper
11 5⁄8 x 8 ¼in. (29.6 x 21cm.)
Executed circa 1963
Wir sind die Zigarren (We Are the Cigars)
titled 'Wir sind die Zigarren' (lower left)
ballpoint pen and watercolour on paper
11 5⁄8 x 8 ¼in. (29.6 x 21cm.)
Executed circa 1963
Provenance
The Artist.
Private Collection, Frankfurt.
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Private Collection, Frankfurt.
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Sigmar Polke Works on Paper 1963-1974, 1999, pp. 42 and 186, no. 14 (illustrated in colour, p. 43). This exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Immediate Touch, German, Austrian, and Swiss Drawings from Saint Louis Collections, 1946-2007, 2008, pp. 14, 48 and 142, no. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 110).
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Immediate Touch, German, Austrian, and Swiss Drawings from Saint Louis Collections, 1946-2007, 2008, pp. 14, 48 and 142, no. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 110).
Further Details
We are grateful to Mr. Michael Trier, Cologne, for the information he has kindly provided.
Brought to you by
Stephanie Rao
Specialist, Co-head of Day Sale