SIGMAR POLKE, Ortsbestimmung, 1998 [screen print]

SIGMAR POLKE, Ortsbestimmung, 1998
50 x 70 cm
screen print
edition 70 + XX AP
signed, numbered
pristine
€ 3.200,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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History of prices:
Fine Art Multiple.com October 2023 € 7.260
Grisebach, Germany, 30 April 2023 € 2.375
Edition Staeck, Düsseldorf Germany January 2023 € 4.100
Edition Staeck, Düsseldorf, Germany 16 September 2021 € 4.100
Fineartmultiple.com, Berlin, Germany August 2021 € 7.260
Steven Vail Fine Arts, Des Moines, USA August 2021 US$ 3,500 (nr I/XX)
Korff Stiftung, Ilmmünster, Germany, April 2021 € 4.500
Edition Staeck, Düsseldorf February 2021 € 4.100
Korn Stiftung, Ilmmünster, Germany April 2018 € 4.100
Edition Staeck, Düsseldorf April 2017 € 4.100
Edition Staeck, Düsseldorf September 2010 € 2.100
Germanposters.de April 2009 € 1.200
Artax, Düsseldorf, May 2003 € 1.250

SIGMAR POLKE, Hallucie, 1998

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SIGMAR POLKE, Hallucie, 1998
70 x 50 cm / 27.6 × 19.5 inches
screen print on cardboard
numbered, signed
edition 70 + XX
published by Edition Klaus Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
excellent condition, although slight bending in darker area of lower part of print
€ 2.250,- plus € 40,- Track & Trace registered EU mail


Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) rarely gave interviews, and on the few occasions when he did so, his responses often frustrated the interviewer’s quest for information. Similarly, he wrote very few artist statements. The relative lack of guidance from the artist has meant that viewers and those who write about Polke’s work must take risks, makes guesses, puzzle things out for themselves. Here in ‘Hallucie’ alluding with faces that may be found within the dots of a printer’s screen is obvious.

The edition “Hallucie” is part of the MoMA Print Collection, New York, USA.

 

History of prices:
Klaus Staeck Editionen € 2.600,- January 2023
Korff-Stiftung, Ilmmünster, Germany: € 2.400,- December 2021
Korff-Stiftung, Ilmmünster, Germany: € 2.800,- November 2019
Kunsthaus Artes, Germany: € 2.400,- April 2018
Klaus Staeck Editionen € 2.400,- April 2017
Klaus Staeck Editionen € 2.400,- February 2015

SIGMAR POLKE, Ohne Titel, 1989 [‘splash’ screen print]

SIGMAR POLKE, Untitled, 1989
98,5 x 69 cm / 38.5 x 27 inches
screen print on Schoellershammer 250 grams/m²
signed, edition 940
excellent condition
published by Griffelkunst Vereinigung, Hamburg, Germany
€ 1.000,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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Sigmar Polke was the practicioner of large-scale works whose interest in cartoon and mass media was once called Capitalist Realism in Germany, and whose intensely varied marks yielded a lifelong inventiveness with form, media and chance.

The screen print edition Untitled 1989 of the Griffelkunst Vereinigung is part of the MoMA Print Collection, New York, USA.

History of prices:
Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, Germany 18 August 2023 € 1.143,-
Nosbüsh & Stucke, Berlin, Germany 13 May 2023 € 800,- (hammer price)
1st Dibs, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022 € 3.400,-
Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany, 6 February 2020 € 1.000,- (hammer price)
Jetschke-Van Vliet, Berlin, Germany, November 2020 € 900,- (hammer price)

SIGMAR POLKE, Ohne Titel, 1988 [‘nose’ screen print]

SIGMAR POLKE, Untitled, 1988
98,5 x 69 cm / 38.5 x 27 inches
screen print on Schoellershammer 250 grams/m²
signed, edition 940
published by Griffelkunst Vereinigung, Hamburg, Germany
splendid condition
€ 3.800,- plus € 75,- courier costs
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Sigmar Polke was the practicioner of large-scale works whose interest in cartoon and mass media was once called Capitalist Realism in Germany, and whose intensely varied marks yielded a lifelong inventiveness with form, media and chance.

The screen print edition Untitled 1989 of the Griffelkunst Vereinigung is part of the MoMA Print Collection, New York, USA.

History of prices:
1st DIBS, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022 € 3.400,-
see also various auction results

SIGMAR POLKE, Mu nieltnam netorruprup, 1975

SIGMAR POLKE, Mu nieltnam netorruprup, 1975
21 x 15 cm
offset, 160 pp. with 101 ill.
published by Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel 1975
German language
condition excellent, although small scuffing on cover
€ 200,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU registered mail, Margin Scheme
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During the 1970s Sigmar Polke travelled extensively, concentrating heavily on photography as a medium. Both in painting and printing his work often has an experimental attitude. This book is half catalogue with a list of 31 prints and half artist’s book which in the second part shows a series of 101 printed photos about dog/bear fights, men from the Far East gathering and smoking in contrast to photos of Hell’s Angels, police and rich people in the West. This chapter called Mu nieltnam netorruprup is equal to the title of print number 31 in the list of works in the first part of the book.

History of prices:
Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany February 2024 € 240,-
Specific Object/David Platzker, New York, USA May 2022 US$ 400.-
Artecontemporanea.com, Milan, Italy € 300,- February 2021

SIGMAR POLKE, Höhere Wesen befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!, n.d. [signed postcard]

SIGMAR POLKE, Höhere Wesen befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!, n.d.
14,8 x 10,5 cm
offset postcard, here signed
extremely rare
published by Gebr. König Postkartenverlag, Cologne, Germany 
€ 780,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This card has been published as part of a set of 10 and was not as such signed. Nevertheless in combination with the René Block poster ‘Höhere Wesen befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!’ this signed postcard may be looked at as an authorization of both this card and the René Block poster.