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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | The Macklowe Collection | 4 | $****** - ****** | Plastik-Wannen [Plastic Tubs] |
paintings
94.6 x 120 cm (37.25 x 47.25 in)
oil and graphite on canvas
Charles Saatchi, London (acquired by 1984)
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in March 1989
Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; and Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum Eindhoven, Bilder Tücher Objekte: Werkauswahl 1962-1971, February - July 1976, p. 18, no. 13, illustrated, and p. 155 (text)
Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Köln, Sigmar Polke, September - October 1984, p. 28, illustrated in color, and p. 164, no. 11 (text)
Milwaukee Art Museum; and Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Warhol / Beuys / Polke, June - November 1987, p. 98 (text), p. 102 no. 1, illustrated, and p. 126 (text)
London, The Saatchi Gallery, Leon Golub, Sigmar Polke, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro, April - September 1988
Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Sigmar Polke, October - December 1988, p. 57, illustrated in color, and p. 112 (text)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; and New York, Brooklyn Museum, Sigmar Polke, November 1990 - January 1992, p. 48, no. 4, illustrated in color, and p. 147 (text)
Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; and Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Sigmar Polke: Die drei Lügen der Malerei, June 1997 - February 1998, p. 20, illustrated in color, and p. 338 (text)
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, September - December 2012, p. 23, illustrated in color and p. 291 (text)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Modern; and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Alibis: Sigmar Polke, 1963-2010, April 2014 - July 2015, p. 100, fig. 6, illustrated in color, and p. 256, no. 21, illustrated in color
Rudi Fuchs, Peter Schjendahl, Hilton Kramer, Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, Volume III, London and New York 1984, p. 6, no. 64 (text), and n.p., illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Sprengel Museum Hannover, Positionen: Malerei Aus Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1986, p. 144 (text)
David Thistlewood, ed., Sigmar Polke: Back to Postmodernity, Liverpool 1996, p. 102 (text), and p. 103, fig. 22, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Neues Museum Nürnberg, Abstrakte Kunst, 2000, p. 100 (text)
Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments, 2004, p. 97, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Zwirner & Wirth, Pop: Roy Lichtenstein, Konrad Lueg, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol, 2005, p. 49, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Leben mit Pop. Eine Reproduktion des Kapitalistischen Realismus, 2013, p. 156, illustrated in color
Ara H. Merjian, Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism, Chicago 2020, pp. 98-99, fig. 2.19, illustrated in color
Sigmar Polke
1941 - 2010
Plastik-Wannen [Plastic Tubs]
oil and graphite on canvas
37 ¼ by 47 ¼ in. 94.6 by 120 cm.
Executed in 1964.
![Plastik-Wannen [Plastic Tubs] by Sigmar Polke](https://liveart-analytics.imgix.net/lots/1398485/2070ddbef47642db61d338234a5e901e?w=1280&h=960 "Plastik-Wannen [Plastic Tubs] by Sigmar Polke")