Untitled (head), Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke
Untitled (head)
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Sigmar Polke

Untitled (head), ca. 1967 – 1968


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295 x 210 mm
Physical Description
Watercolour on thin wove paper
Inventory Number
SG 3397
Object Number
SG 3397 Z
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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Rather than taking full advantage of the medium’s painterly qualities – as artists like Emil Nolde or Ernst Wilhelm Nay had done –, Sigmar Polke worked primarily with graphic lines in this watercolour drawing. He constructed an abstract face from loosely assembled, sometimes intersecting straight lines, acute angles and soft curves. The result is reminiscent of the constructive and rhythmic compositions of classical modern art. Polke supplemented these elements with a few three-dimensionally worked forms as well as a grid and a group of small dots.

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10.09.2024