Ohne Titel (Figur). 1983.
Iron, gescheißt und korrodiert.
Gabler/Ohnesorge 468. Unique object. Ca. 222 x 56 x 52 cm (87.4 x 22 x 20.4 in). [JS].

• Rare monumentality. The largest sculpture by the artist ever offered on the international auction market (www.artprice.com).
• One of the first abstract steles that Croissant created in the early 1980s.
• The monumental steles from this series of works show parallels to the contemporaneous creations of the American Hard Edge protagonist Ellsworth Kelly.
• Croissant developed his abstract steles from figuration: from his standing figures of the 1970s, which were based on Greek and Egyptian models.
• Fascinating multi-perspectivity and archaic aura.

PROVENANCE: Hans-Joachim and Helga Preker Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (until 2022).

LITERATURE: Klaus Waldschmidt (ed.): Michael Croissant, Muncih 2002, p. 104 (illustrated).

“Michael Croissant has left an incomparable mark on recent German sculpture. [..] Croissant's forms, which followed a constructive plan from the mid-1970s onwards, his surfaces, which he welded together and which, through their delicate curvatures, breathe life into the space or allow themselves to be inscribed into it , his lines, which always dominate and show an attitude, his diverse surface patinas, through which his figures communicate with the light - all this characterizes an oeuvre of rare purity and authenticity.”
Christa Lichtenstern, “Ich sehe mich ganz stark in der Tradition” – Croissant and art history, in: Gabler/Ohnesorge, p. 41.

In very good condition. The base plate has small abrasions in the rear corners, as well as irregularities and traces of cracking. The beautiful patina has very few insignificant abrasions.
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