POLKE, SIGMAR
1941 Oels/Lower Silesia - 2010 Cologne

Title: Untitled.
Date: 1968.
Technique: Watercolour and spray paint on vellum.
Measurement: 95 x 63cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: S. Polke (slightly faded).
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.


The work is registered with the Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne.

Provenance:
- Private collection Johannes Brus (directly from the artist 1969)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (by donation in the mid-1970s)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (by donation 2010)

- Beautiful, subtle depiction of a couple from the artist's early work
- In private family ownership since the 1960s and offered on the art market for the first time
- With just a few strokes and pictorial elements, Polke succeeds in creating an astonishingly intimate and narratively dense composition.