Umwandlung (Transformation), 1968

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Medium

photolithograph

Dimensions

image: 43.8 x 67.2 cm (17 1/4 x 26 7/16 in.)
mount: 51.3 x 72.4 cm (20 3/16 x 28 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2008.30.41

Artists / Makers

Sigmar Polke (artist) German, 1941 - 2010

Gerhard Richter (artist) German, born 1932

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Inscription

signed by artists lower right in graphite: Polke Richter 1968; lower left, by artist's hand, in graphite: 188/200; below image, by unknown hand, printed in black: 5 Phasen einer von Polke und Richter vorgenommenen Umwandlung. Das Massiv wurde am 26. April 68 für die Dauer von 2 Stunden in Eine Kugel vorwandelt. Edition 16 galerie rene block 1968

Provenance

Eileen and Michael Cohen, New York; NGA purchase (through Zwirner and Wirth, New York), 2008.

Associated Names

Cohen, Eileen and Michael

Bibliography

2000: Becker , Jürgen and Claus von der Osten, eds., with an essay by Martin Hentschel. Sigmar Polke: The Editioned Works, 1963-2000: Catalogue Raisonne. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000: 21.