Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945), Am Anfang (In the Beginning)

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
Am Anfang (In the Beginning)
sand, earth, oil, sunflower seeds and mixed media on canvas
111 3/8 x 149 ¾ x 2in. (283 x 380.5 x 5cm.)
Executed in 1998

Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Guido Orsi, Italy (acquired from the above in 1999).
Bear Witness, Sotheby's London, 10 March 2015, lot 161.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from a Private Important European Collection

Literature
G. Celant (ed.), Anselm Kiefer, exh. cat., Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2007, p. 493, no. 118 (illustrated in colour with the incorrect orientation, p. 297).

Exhibited
Ghent, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, SMAK, Anselm Kiefer. Recente werken 1996-1999, 2000, p. 150 (illustrated in colour with the incorrect orientation, p. 29).