Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 05./06. 2025 in Munich
Lot 124001416

124001416
Jonathan Meese
Die Gralsfeigheit "Schwänzchen hoch" (zweiteilig), 2005.
Oil, acrylic and paper collage on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 35,400 - 47,200
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Die Gralsfeigheit "Schwänzchen hoch" (zweiteilig). 2005.
Oil, acrylic and paper collage on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right, as well as titled bottom center. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the canvas. Numbered “MEE/M 920” verso on the stretcher, as well as inscribed “rechts” and “links”. Each 210 x 140 cm (82.6 x 55.1 in). [AW].
• Characteristic combination of painting, text, and collage.
• Jonathan Meese is one of the most recognized contemporary German artists. His provocative and deliberately controversial art has won him international recognition.
• Meese's confusing titles are thought-provoking.
• His works are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
We are grateful to the Bureau Jonathan Meese, Berlin, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (with several labels and gallery stamps on the stretcher).
Private collection, Northern Germany.
Jonathan Meese, quoted from: Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 2006, p. 3.
Oil, acrylic and paper collage on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right, as well as titled bottom center. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the canvas. Numbered “MEE/M 920” verso on the stretcher, as well as inscribed “rechts” and “links”. Each 210 x 140 cm (82.6 x 55.1 in). [AW].
• Characteristic combination of painting, text, and collage.
• Jonathan Meese is one of the most recognized contemporary German artists. His provocative and deliberately controversial art has won him international recognition.
• Meese's confusing titles are thought-provoking.
• His works are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
We are grateful to the Bureau Jonathan Meese, Berlin, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (with several labels and gallery stamps on the stretcher).
Private collection, Northern Germany.
Jonathan Meese, quoted from: Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 2006, p. 3.
124001416
Jonathan Meese
Die Gralsfeigheit "Schwänzchen hoch" (zweiteilig), 2005.
Oil, acrylic and paper collage on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 35,400 - 47,200
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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