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PROPERTY OF A PRESTIGIOUS PRIVATE COLLECTOR
ANSELM KIEFER (B. 1945)
Paul Celan: wir schöpften die Finsternis leer, wir fanden das Wort, das den Sommer heraufkam: Blume; (We scooped the darkness empty, we found the word that ascended summer: flower)
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ANSELM KIEFER (B. 1945)
Paul Celan: wir schöpften die Finsternis leer, wir fanden das Wort, das den Sommer heraufkam: Blume; (We scooped the darkness empty, we found the word that ascended summer: flower)
titled 'Paul Celan wir schöpften die Finsternis leer, wir fanden das Wort, das den Sommer heraufkam: Blume' (upper right)
oil, acrylic, emulsion and shellac on photograph on canvas
110¼ x 149½in. (280 x 380cm.)
Executed in 2012
Paul Celan: wir schöpften die Finsternis leer, wir fanden das Wort, das den Sommer heraufkam: Blume; (We scooped the darkness empty, we found the word that ascended summer: flower)
titled 'Paul Celan wir schöpften die Finsternis leer, wir fanden das Wort, das den Sommer heraufkam: Blume' (upper right)
oil, acrylic, emulsion and shellac on photograph on canvas
110¼ x 149½in. (280 x 380cm.)
Executed in 2012
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017.
Literature
J. Griffin (et al.), The Twenty First Century Art Book, London 2014 (illustrated in colour, p. 144).
D. Baqué, Anselm Kiefer: A Monograph, London 2015, p. 16 (detail illustrated in colour, pp. 10-11).
D. Baqué, Anselm Kiefer: A Monograph, London 2015, p. 16 (detail illustrated in colour, pp. 10-11).
Exhibited
Paris, Gagosian Gallery, Anselm Kiefer: Morgenthau Plan, 2012-2013, pp. 52 and 122 (illustrated in colour, p. 53).
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Claudia Schürch
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