Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen
1954
Am Wasser. 1985.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Titled "Am Wasser" on the reverse of the stretcher. 130 x 169.5 cm (51.1 x 66.7 in).
[AR].
• Unmistakably radical and uncompromising: a painterly statement that deliberately subverts traditional imagery and ideals of beauty.
• Reflections on the water— a symbol of introspection, truth, and beauty— turned upside down in Oehlen’s work and, stripped of narrative context, become an empty sign.
• Bad Boys: Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen shaped the art of an entire generation with their rebellious and provocative works.
• From the artist’s sought-after creative period in the mid-1980s.
• Acquired in the year of its creation; part of the Deutsche Bank Collection ever since.
• Other works by the artist are in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Tate Gallery, London; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: Deutsche Bank Collection (since 1985, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, with the label on the reverse).
Albert Oehlen
1954
Am Wasser. 1985.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Titled "Am Wasser" on the reverse of the stretcher. 130 x 169.5 cm (51.1 x 66.7 in).
[AR].
• Unmistakably radical and uncompromising: a painterly statement that deliberately subverts traditional imagery and ideals of beauty.
• Reflections on the water— a symbol of introspection, truth, and beauty— turned upside down in Oehlen’s work and, stripped of narrative context, become an empty sign.
• Bad Boys: Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen shaped the art of an entire generation with their rebellious and provocative works.
• From the artist’s sought-after creative period in the mid-1980s.
• Acquired in the year of its creation; part of the Deutsche Bank Collection ever since.
• Other works by the artist are in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Tate Gallery, London; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: Deutsche Bank Collection (since 1985, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, with the label on the reverse).
