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PER KIRKEBY (1938-2018)
Diastole Systole
signed and titled ‘Diastole Systole P Kirkeby’ (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
59 5/8 x 48 1/4in. (151.3 x 123.3cm.)
Painted in 1981
Provenance
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne.
Wolfgang Hahn, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1982).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Hejlskov Larsen, Per Kirkeby Paintings 1978-1989, Cologne 2016, pp. 293, 490 and 493, no. M 533 (illustrated in colour, pp. 62 and 386).
Exhibited
Cologne, Michael Werner Gallery, Per Kirkeby “Semele” – Serie, 1982, no. 2 (illustrated in colour, p. 9).
Kassel, Fridericianum, Documenta VII, 1982 (illustrated in colour, p. 173).
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Per Kirkeby 1982 (illustrated in colour, p. 33).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, 1984 (illustrated, p. 188).
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Per Kirkeby Retrospektive. Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Skulpturen, 1987, no. 40, p. 158.
Cologne, Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Bilderstreit. Wilderspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, 1989, p. 518, no. 349.
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