Martin Kippenberger - UNTITLED (THE INVENTION OF THE JOKE) - image-1

Lot 421 D

Martin Kippenberger - UNTITLED (THE INVENTION OF THE JOKE)

Auction 942 - overview Cologne
28.05.2009, 10:30 - Contemporary Art
Estimate: 12.000 € - 14.000 €
Result: 14.400 € (incl. premium)

Mixed media on hotel letter paper 26.5 x 18 cm, framed under glass.

The present work is a model for the large-sized oil painting "Untitled", 1993, oil on canvas, 240 x 200 cm, which was exhibited for the first time 1993 in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, with the whole group of paintings belonging to "The invention of the joke".

Exhibitions

Tübingen 2003 (Kunsthalle), Martin Kippenberger, Schattenspiel im Zweigwerk, Die Zeichnungen, exhib.cat. no.84, p.86 with coll.ill.