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克里斯托（Javacheff Christo，当代艺术I-

Christo * (Javacheff Christo) - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935–2020 New York)
Running Fence (Project for Sonoma County and Marin County, State of California) - Estero Road, 1975, signed, dated Christo 1975, fabric, pencil, charcoal, crayon, gouache and technical data collage on board, 55.5 x 70.5 cm, framed under plexiglass

This work is registered in the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Archives, New York.

We are grateful to Jonathan Henery, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Archives, New York, for his scientific support in cataloguing the work.

Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Joan Sonnabend, Obelisk Gallery Massachusetts, 1975
Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 29 November 2008
Private collection, 德国y

The installation Running Fence, which was installed in 1976 and lasted for 14 days, is considered one of the most impor¬tant early works by the famous artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Standing 5.5m tall and stretching over 39km across Sonoma County and Marin County in California. The white fabric billowed in the wind, reflecting light at a variety of angles and shades, cre¬ating dazzling, shimmering contours that cut across the landscape in soft yet sharp lines. The sheer beauty of the play of light and weather on the fence contrasted sharply with the theme of separation and boundary that fences generally convey. According to the artists, a fence embodies a larger theme of human freedom and limitation.

All costs of the project were covered with the sale of studies, preparatory drawings and collages, scale models and original lithographs. The artwork being auctioned off is an original drawing which was created in this process.

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托姆布雷-

Cy Twombly * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Lexington, Virginia 1928–2011 Rome)
Untitled, 1963/1964, signed Cy Twombly, colored pencil, wax crayon on paper, 86 x 67 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Private Collection, 德国y
Kunsthaus Lempertz, 3 December 2016, lot 450 - acquired there by the present owner

Literature:
Nicola Del Roscio, Cy Twombly, drawings, catalogue raisonné, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Ed.), Munich 2011, vol. 4, no. 20

Cy Twombly occupies a unique position among US artists. Twombly lived and worked in Italy, far from the 美国 art world, and felt free to experiment. In Rome, Twombly refined his distinctive artistic language. Twombly\'s visual language is informed by classical literature, ancient history, poetry and mythology, as well as his own life experience. Since the 1950s, Twombly\'s drawings have been dominated by rhythmically repeated line progressions, swirls, dense tangles and isolated numbers. Pencil, coloured pens and ballpoint pens enabled Twombly to make this \'scriptural\' drawing, which ultimately includes the signature of the artist himself. On the white of the paper, the pictorial elements provoke by appearing as scribbles, appearing as if randomly distributed on the surface.

The untitled work offered here is a vivid example of Twombly\'s unique pictorial language. The pictorial elements merge into an abstract composition that is both delicate and dynamic. The work was created in Italy between 1963-64. Twombly lived in a 17th-century palazzo on Via di Monserrato in Rome at the time the work was created. Untitled is emblematic of the groundbreaking work Twombly produced in the 1960s, widely regarded as a critical and highly fruitful period in his long and illustrious career.

“Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don’t like oil because you can’t get back into it, or you make a mess. It’s not my favourite thing... pencil is more my medium than wet paint.”
Cy Twombly

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Maria Lassnig，当代艺术I-

Maria Lassnig * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Kappel, Carinthia, 1919–2014 Vienna)
“Untitled”, 1980, gouache, colour instruction for the print version of the painting “Die Last des Fleisches”, 1973, of the catalogue “Austria. Biennale di Venezia 1980. Maria Lassnig”, on paper (envelope from the gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels - addressed to Maria Lassnig), to the upper edge in the artist’s handwriting “Text ausbessern”, image size 17 x 21.5 cm, envelope 20.5 x 21.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
excerpt from an email from 20 May 2022

Registered:
Maria Lassnig Stiftung (14.10.2022)

This work is included in the Maria Lassnig catalogue raisonné (certificate available).

Auszug aus einem E-Mail, 20. Mai 2022:
“Mein Vater ... bekam die kleinformatige Arbeit von Maria Lassnig während der Herstellung des Kataloges “Austria. Biennale di Venezia 1980. Maria Lassnig” ... in der Druckerei Brüder Rosenbaum 1980 geschenkt.
Leider befand Maria Lassnig das Ektachrom ... ihres Gemäldes “Die Last des Fleisches” ... in der Farbwiedergabe nicht zufriedenstellend.
... mein Vater bat sie entsprechend um eine Orientierungshilfe ...
Maria Lassnig fertigte zuhause die vorliegende Gouache ... an.
Nach dem zweiten Probedruck und diversen Farbkorrekturen bekam mein Vater ... die Zustimmung Maria Lassnigs für den Druck sowie die Gouache von “Die Last des Fleisches” als Dankeschön zum Geschenk.
Die Arbeit blieb seither in Familienbesitz.”

Excerpt from an email from 20 May 2022:
“My father [...] received the small-format work by Maria Lassnig during the production of the catalogue Austria. Biennale di Venezia 1980.
Maria Lassnig [...] in the Rosenbaum Brothers printing house in 1980.

Unfortunately, Maria Lassnig found the ectachrome [...] of her painting „Die Last des Fleisches“ [...] was not satisfactory in its colour reproduction [...]. Accordingly, my father asked her for a guide [...] Maria Lassnig made the present gouache at home [...]. After the second test print and various colour corrections, my father [...] received Maria Lassnig’s approval for the print as well as the gouache of„Die Last des Fleisches“ as a thank-you gift. The work has remained in the family ever since.”

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恩斯特·路德维希·基什内尔-现代-

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Moderne-

(Aschaffenburg 1880–1938 Frauenkirch bei Davos)
Marokkaner, ca. 1909, Buntstift, Kohle auf Papier, rückseitig E. L. Kirchner Nachlassstempel, nummeriert FS Dr/Bi 13, 33 x 45 cm, gerahmt

Provenienz:
Nachlass des Künstlers
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main
New Art Center, Weintraub Gallery, New York
Privatsammlung, Rhode Island
Max Vater (1992)
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen/Berlin (um 1992)
Privatsammlung, Deutschland

Ausgestellt/Literatur:
Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hanna Bekker vom Rath, 1954, Kat.-Nr. 54
Bremen/Berlin, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Expressionisten. Aquarelle und Graphiken, Kat.-Nr. 3 mit Farbabbildung

Ernst Ludwig Kirchners umfangreiches Oeuvre beeindruckt durch seine starken Farben und energischen Konturen. Die mit farbiger Kreide und Kohle angefertigte Zeichnung stellt skizzenhaft vier Personen dar. Die Umrisse der Figuren sind nur mit wenigen markanten Liniensegmenten wiedergegeben, die buntfarbige Kleidung ist mit summarischer Schraffur angedeutet.
Zur Entstehungszeit des Blattes 1909 gab es in Dresden einige „Völkerschauen“, die Kirchner sowie weitere Brücke-Künstler häufig besuchten. Bei diesen Schauen wurden Menschen als lebende Ausstellungsobjekte vorgeführt, fremdländische Tänze und Riten ihrer jeweiligen Heimat als Spektakel arrangiert. Den Brücke-Künstlern dienten die Artisten als Projektionsfläche für das Idealbild des ursprünglichen und naturverbundenen Menschen. Während Kirchners Zeitgenossen ihre Faszination des Exotischen mit Reisen in ferne Länder nachspürten, rezipierte Kirchner die außereuropäischen Kulturen lediglich bei Besuchen im Völkerkundemuseum oder den erwähnten Völkerschauen in Dresden. Da Kirchner Europa nie verließ, war seine Vorstellung von den Bildern geprägt, die ihm bei ebensolchen Vorführungen, aber auch in Museen und in der Literatur begegneten. Kirchner, der nicht einen Tag ohne sein Skizzenbuch unterwegs war, besaß das Talent mit nur wenigen präzisen Strichen ganze Szenerien einzufangen. Er hielt alles fest, was sein künstlerisches Auge reizte.
im Februar 1909 besuchte Kirchner nachweislich eine Vorstellung des Dresdener Zirkus Sarrasani. Er beobachtete die marokkanischen Akrobaten und hielt ihren Auftritt im Skizzenbuch Skb 7 fest. Die vor Ort gemachten Skizzen verarbeitete Kirchner später in zahlreichen Gemälden, Aquarellen und Druckgrafiken.

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草间弥生，当代艺术I-

Yayoi Kusama - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Matsumoto, Japan 1929)
Pumpkin KKK, 2002, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, acrylic on canvas, 22.7 x 15.8 cm, in plexiglass box

This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio

We are grateful to Yayoi Kusama Inc. for confirming the registration of the work in its database

Provenance:
European Private Collection

Iconic Pumpkin

Yayoi Kusama is possibly the best known Japanese artist in the world. Her famous polka dots have become her trademark and Kusama\'s stylized pumpkins are among the most iconic masterpieces of contemporary art.

Born in the late 1920s, Yayoi Kusama grew up in the conservative confines of the small town of Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture in Japan. She attended the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, and after staging her first exhibitions, through which she was ‘discovered’ by the international art world, Kusama was able to emigrate to America, where she lived and worked, primarily in New York, from 1957 to 1973. Kusama celebrated her first major success in New York in 1959 with a solo exhibition at the Brata Gallery, entitled Obsessional Monochrome. The Infinity Net Paintings exhibited there were compositions of dense networks executed with white brushstrokes on a black ground and characterised by the theme of repetition.

Grids, flashes of light and, above all, dots that repeat endlessly are the most striking characteristic of Kusama\'s works and established her fame as the ‘Polka Dot Princess’. For the artist, the dots that overgrow everything are not merely a harmless pattern. They have their origins in the hallucinations and panic attacks she has experienced since her youth, which determined her perception of the world. Growing up, she saw dot and net patterns and feared she would dissolve into them. The polka dots and their constant repetition now became an expression of the search for infinity and the desire for self-dissolution. The dots erase the image into which the artist channels her fears. With her polka dots, Kusama covers not only canvases, but also everyday objects such as tea kettles or bookshelves, clothes, giant tentacles, oversized flowers, entire rooms or herself. And pumpkins as well.

\"Pumpkin KKK\" (2002) represents another important theme in Yayoi Kusama\'s work. For Kusama, the pumpkin is associated with memories of childhood and has been a favourite motif with almost mythical status since the 1970s-1980s. The artist first saw pumpkins during walks with her grandfather, and they had a calming effect on the hallucination-stricken artist. \"I love pumpkins for their humorous shape, their warmth and their human quality,\" Kusama says. She devoted herself to pumpkins in paintings and sculptures and incorporated them into her Infinity Rooms. Bold colours characterise the pumpkins, as do the precisely placed polka dots. The colour scheme follows an inner symbolism, according to which the artist categorises unprocessed experiences. The pumpkins stand for triumph over inner struggles, their endless repetition allows the artist to find her mental balance.

Since her return to Japan, Kusama, who has never made a secret of her illness, has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric institution. In 2017, a museum dedicated solely to her opened in Tokyo and numerous international exhibitions testify to considerable on-going interest in her work. With her unconventional works, her extraordinary performances, self-dramatisations and happenings, Kusama has anticipated many trends in contemporary art.

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马格努斯·普莱森，当代艺术I-

Magnus Plessen * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Hamburg 1967)
Untitled, 2009, signed, dated, titled on the overlap Plessen 2009, oil on canvas, 117 x 89 cm, on stretcher

Provenance:
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (gallery label)
Private collection, 德国y - acquired from the above

Literature:
Uta Grosenick and Daniel Marzona (Eds.): Magnus Plessen. Die Augen in der Hand. Malerei 1999-2009. 100 Bilder, Cologne 2009, cat.-no. 93, with full page color illustration on p. 47

From a background as a photographer and filmmaker, Magnus Plessen has turned himself into one of the most well-known painters of our time. His unique composition technique and reduced visual language as well as the broad stroke of his palette knife lets his artworks play along the boundary of the abstract and the figurative. The characteristics of Plessen’s paintings lie in their systematic development of an image, constructed by adding and removing sections of paint to reveal passages of compact form and negative space. The artist uses the idea of rotation as a means of reordering structure and dimensionality within the painting.

“It’s literally moving away from you. The relationship of the viewer to the painting and the attempt to achieve some kind of loosening is something that physically takes place in my mind but is also an action in the process of making.” (ibid.)

The artwork being auctioned here resembles this situation. Uncoordinated objects and colour fields seem to float through the canvas. As a viewer you recognize some familiar objects such as the hand or the cable and are able use them as fixed points to create your own first-hand impression of the artwork.

“I don’t want to link painting back to the reality that we know. I would like to link it to an unknown place. So, what could that place look like? It’s light, it’s colour, it’s different forces that hold the objects which are readily recognisable in my paintings together. Hold them in place, in position, give them a place. I normally tend to bring the same objects or body parts to the canvas, e.g. hands, feet or fruit. I think it’s important to bring these familiar things that I deploy onto the empty canvas. I think you need something familiar in an unfamiliar place. It just makes it so much easier to move and find your way through that space.”
(Magnus Plessen on the exhibition: Riding the Image, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, 14.9.-10.11.2012)

From a background as a photographer and filmmaker, Magnus Plessen has turned himself into one of the most well-known painters of our time. His unique composition technique and reduced visual language as well as the broad stroke of his palette knife lets his artworks play along the boundary of the abstract and the figurative. The characteristics of Plessen’s paintings lie in their systematic development of an image, constructed by adding and removing sections of paint to reveal passages of compact form and negative space. The artist uses the idea of rotation as a means of reordering structure and dimensionality within the painting.

“It’s literally moving away from you. The relationship of the viewer to the painting and the attempt to achieve some kind of loosening is something that physically takes place in my mind but is also an action in the process of making.” (ibid.)
The artwork being auctioned here resembles this situation. Uncoordinated objects and colour fields seem to float through the canvas. As a viewer you recognize some familiar objects such as the hand or the cable and are able use them as fixed points to create your own first-hand impression of the artwork.