Martin Kippenberger
1953 - 1997
Yeschen-Nochen-Vielleichtchen. 1991.
Portfolio with 5 drypoints, partly with original pencil drawings and inscriptions, and title page, published by AC & T Corporation, Tokyo 1991.
Each signed, dated and marked “P.P.”. With the artist's and publisher's name and the date embossed on the cover of the folder. Additionally titled and marked on the title page. The only printer's proof aside from the edition of 35 copies. On handmade Napali paper. Each ca. 70 x 60 cm (27.5 x 23.6 in). Sheet: each ca. 103 x 73 cm (40,5 x 28,7 in).
[KA].
• Kippenberger's provocative nonsense art is a refreshing testament to the nonconformity of the Berlin art scene of the 1980s and early 1990s.
• Complete series of five large-format prints.
• The only “printer's proof” outside the edition of 35 copies.
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is showing a Kippenberger retrospective in 2009, followed by the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, in 2013..

PROVENANCE: Private collection (since 2013: Philips, December 12, 2013).
Acquired by the peresent owner from the above.

LITERATURE: Phillips, London, auction on December 12, 2013, lot 93 (illustrated.

In good condition. Primarily at the margins with light handling creases and traces of rubbing, as well as slight brown spots in places in the irregular edges of the handmade paper. Title page with slight creasing and occasional faint brown spots. The folder with slight signs of wear and rubbing.
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