Bidspirit auction | Markus Oehlen: Am Wasser

Markus Oehlen: Am Wasser - OEHLEN, MARKUS 1956 Krefeld Title: Am Wasser. Diptych. Date: 1987. Technique: Each: mixed media on canvas (mounted). Measurement: 251 x 160cm; total dimensions: 251 x 320cm. Notation: Signed and dated on the right canvas lower right: Markus Oehlen 87. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Provenance: - Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne - Bayer Inc., USA - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005) Exhibitions: - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Literature: - Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 170f., fig. - Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 85, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 236, fig. - The large-format painting appeals through its very dense pictorial structure that is typical of Oehlen - The figurative and the abstract, light and shadow, line and form meet on the pictorial surface and cannot be taken in by the viewer all at the same time Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Markus Oehlen Germany Neue Wilde Contemporary Art Post War 1980s Framed Abstract Painting Mixed media Shapes