145
Fritz Koenig
Kleines Epitaph für Ikarus II, 1982.
Iron, muonted, with red-brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,500
Sold:
€ 11,430 / $ 13,144

(incl. surcharge)
145
Fritz Koenig
Kleines Epitaph für Ikarus II, 1982.
Iron, muonted, with red-brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,500
Sold:
€ 11,430 / $ 13,144

(incl. surcharge)

Kleines Epitaph für Ikarus II. 1982.
Iron, muonted, with red-brown patina.
Scratched monogram in lower left on front side. One of 3 copies. 40 x 18 x 12 cm (15.7 x 7 x 4.7 in).
[KT].

• Rare: One of only 3 copies.
• Beginning in the 1980s, Koening dedicated his work to transience, creating his famous epitaphs and the "Icarus" group.
• Homage to the ingenious engineer and tragic visionary of ancient mythology.
• Koenig's sculptures are in many important collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Collection, Venice, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Bavaria.

LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2: Skulpturen, Munich 2003, no. 786 (illu. on p. 190).







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