Auction 533 Part 1 Evening Sale, Modern, Post War & Contemporary
Wednesday, Jun 4, 16:00 (your local time)
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Evening Sale: Wednesday, 4 June 2025
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LOT 2:

Katharina Grosse: Untitled

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Price including buyer’s premium: 43,840
Start price:
32,000
Estimated price :
€40,000 - €60,000
Buyer's Premium: 35%
VAT: 19% On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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Katharina Grosse: Untitled
GROSSE, KATHARINA
1961 Freiburg

Title: Untitled.
Date: 1999.
Technique: Acrylic on aluminium.
Measurement: 188 x 125cm.
Notation: Dated and signed thrice verso: 1999 Katharina Grosse. Here additionally equipped with work details.

The work is registered under the number 1999_2086L at the artist's archive. We are grateful to the Wunderblock Doundation (Katharina Grosse archive), Berlin, for the kind support.

Provenance:
- Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
- Bremer Landesbank (in 2000 acquired from the previous owner)

Literature:
- Lohmüller, Matina/ Schmidt, Sabine Maria (eds.): Augenblicke. Zeitgenössische Kunst der Norddeutschen Landesbank, Cologne 2019, p. 75, ill.

- Work typical of the late 1990s, in which Grosse experimented with spray paint for the first time
- Innovative approach by one of the most important artists of contemporary abstraction
- The work captivates with its turquoise colour applied in iridescent nuances

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This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1)

Explanations to the Catalogue

Katharina Grosse
Germany
Abstraction
Contemporary Art
1990s
Colour
Painting
Acrylic