Sigmar Polke (1941-2010), Bambusbild (Bamboo Picture)

Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
Bambusbild (Bamboo Picture)
signed and dated 'S Polke 67' (lower left); signed 'S. Polke' (on the overlap)
dispersion on printed fabric
35 3/8 x 29 ½in. (90 x 75cm.)
Executed in 1967

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
Ingrid von Oppenheim, Cologne, thence by descent.
Private Collection, Cologne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 26 June 1996, lot 48.
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne.
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1996).
Thence by descent to the present owners.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Exhibited
Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Sigmar Polke: Bilder-Tücher-Objekte-Werkauswahl 1962-1972, 1976, no. 134, p. 159, (illustrated inverted, p. 64; incorrectly dated 1969). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum.
Berlin, Bruno Brunett Fine Arts, Sigmar Polke, Gemeinschaftswerk Aufschwung Ost, curated by Michael Trier, 1993, no. 35 (illustrated inverted, unpaged).
New York, Michael Werner Gallery, Sigmar Polke: Paintings from the 60s and 70s, 1995-1996. This exhibition later travelled to Cologne, Galerie Michael Werner, as Sigmar Polke: Frühe Arbeiten (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Neuss, Langen Foundation, Homage an Marianne Langen - works from the collection, 2011-2012 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 19).

Post Lot Text
We are grateful to Michael Trier from the Estate of Sigmar Polke for the information he has kindly provided.