Sale: 561 / Contemporary Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 124000331

 

124000331
Imi Knoebel
Twins 9, 2007.
Acrylic on aluminum and acrylic on pastic foil,...
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 44,000 - 66,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Twins 9. 2007.
Acrylic on aluminum and acrylic on pastic foil, on on aluminum brackets.
Lower aluminum panel B signed and dated, with a label inscribed with the dimensions and mounting instructions; panel A with a label. Plastic foils numbered, aluminum bracket with labels. Total dimensions: 146 x 99 x 6 cm (57.4 x 38.9 x 2.3 in).
[KT].

• Knoebel's works represent some of the most radical and most rigorous positions in contemporary abstraction.
• Balanced and harmonious composition that floats in perfect balance.
• Knoebel's works are in renowned international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Albertina, Vienna.
• Most recently, Knoebel's works were on display in the exhibition “Imi Knoebel. Green Flag” at the White Cube, Hong Kong (2023), and in the exhibition ‘Balance’ at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2022)
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PROVENANCE: Galerie Lelong, Zürich.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2013).

"I thought: everything has been done already [.] Yves Klein has painted his canvas blue, Lucio Fontana has cut slashes into his. What’s left? If you want to do something, to stay alive, you have to think of something at least as radical."
Imi Knoebel in an interview with The Guardian, July 15, 2015, quoted from: www.theguardian.com




124000331
Imi Knoebel
Twins 9, 2007.
Acrylic on aluminum and acrylic on pastic foil,...
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 44,000 - 66,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.