Sale: 561 / Contemporary Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 124001264

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124001264
Blinky Palermo
Flipper, 1970.
Two sheets Silkscreen in colors (diptych)
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000

 
$ 33,000 - 44,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Flipper. 1970.
Two sheets Silkscreen in colors (diptych).
Signed, dated and numbered. From an edition of 90 copies. On wove paper. 66 x 86 cm (25.9 x 33.8 in). Sheet: 79,5 x 59,5 cm (31,2 x 23,4 in).
Printed by Serigraphisches Atelier Laube, Munich, and published as an edition by Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich. [EH].

• The artist's juxtaposition of the two print variants makes the spatial dissolution of color palpable.
• The diptych is based on the painting “Flipper” from 1965.
• Alongside Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, Palermo's oeuvre represents one of the most important positions in German art of the 1960s and 1970s
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PROVENANCE: Collection, Bavaria.

LITERATURE: Fred Jahn, Blinky Palermo. Gesamte Grafik und alle Auflagenobjekte 1966-1975, Munich 1983, no. 8.

The diptych is based on the painting “Flipper” from 1965. The two-color print is juxtaposed with the print of the original three-color version. Blinky Palermo only decided to produce an edition of the two-color version after the trial proof, and a few weeks later, he decided to sell the sheets as a diptych. By this time, however, only a few single sheets had been sold, and part of the edition had suffered surface damage. The artist sorted out and destroyed these sheets in 1972. In his catalog raisonné, Fred Jahn assumes that from the original edition of 90, only between 50 and 60 copies have survived.



124001264
Blinky Palermo
Flipper, 1970.
Two sheets Silkscreen in colors (diptych)
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000

 
$ 33,000 - 44,000

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