Haute Couture ist viel zu tür

Details

Sigmar Polke (b. 1941)
Haute Couture ist viel zu tür
signed and dated 'Sigmar Polke 89' (on the stretcher)
acrylic, lacquer and resin on fabric
88½ x 119½ in. (224.7 x 303.5 cm.)
Painted in 1986-1988.

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

Exhibited

New York, Zwirner & Wirth, Painting from Germany: Palermo, Polke, Richter, May-June 2002.

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Please note the illustration is reversed in the catalogue. The figures are on the right side and not the left as they appear in the catalogue illustration.