Ohne Titel. 1983.
Oil on canvas.
Larsen M 646. Signed and dated on the reverse. 117 x 95 cm (46 x 37.4 in).
With a label of Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, and with a label of Galerie Lelong, Zürich, on the reverse. [AR].
• Prime example of Kirkeby's principle of layering a natural, earthen palette.
• His works are not autonomously abstract, in the artist's eyes, they include reference to geology, flora or figures.
• With his versatile creations in painting, literature and film, he is one of the most important European artists of his generation.
• The artist participated both in the documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale several times.

PROVENANCE: Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery, Copenhagen (2009).
Private collection.
Private collection Germany (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Per Kirkeby på Boibrino, Boibrino Galley, Stockholm, April 1984.

"I need something from which I can develop my painting. I can't just paint out of the blue."
Per Kirkeby, quoted from: Ingo F. Walther (ed.), Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, volume I, Cologne 2005, p. 376.