Alfred Hrdlicka *
(Vienna 1928–2009)
“Der Tod und das Mädchen”, series: Randolectil, relief, bronze, brown patina, signed, dated Alfred Hrdlicka 1972, no. 3/30, 6 casts exist - 30 were planned originally (see catalogue raisonné), 76.5 x 52x 7.5 cm, caster: Alfred Zöttl, Vienna
The relief was commissioned by PropyläenVerlag.
Michael Lewin, Alfred Hrdlicka, Das Gesamtwerk Bildhauerei, Europaverlag, 1987, p. 224, no. 118/a, ill. p. 118 a, see also note no. 117
Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany
Death and the Girl is a sculptural adaptation of the lithograph “Gummitod” from the “Randolectil” cycle, a series of etchings bearing the name of a tranquilliser, in which Alfred Hrdlicka confronts mental illnesses and abnormalities at the end of the 1960s.
“The series is introduced with a ‘Prologue’ of striptease scenes which increasingly ‘degenerate’. With “Gummitod”, the artist poses the question of how close the world of experience of so-called well people is to that of the mentally ill.”
Michael Lewin, Alfred Hrdlicka Druckgraphik, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, 1989, p. 185
01.06.2017 - 18:00
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EUR 6,795.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 8,000.- to EUR 14,000.-
Alfred Hrdlicka *
(Vienna 1928–2009)
“Der Tod und das Mädchen”, series: Randolectil, relief, bronze, brown patina, signed, dated Alfred Hrdlicka 1972, no. 3/30, 6 casts exist - 30 were planned originally (see catalogue raisonné), 76.5 x 52x 7.5 cm, caster: Alfred Zöttl, Vienna
The relief was commissioned by PropyläenVerlag.
Michael Lewin, Alfred Hrdlicka, Das Gesamtwerk Bildhauerei, Europaverlag, 1987, p. 224, no. 118/a, ill. p. 118 a, see also note no. 117
Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany
Death and the Girl is a sculptural adaptation of the lithograph “Gummitod” from the “Randolectil” cycle, a series of etchings bearing the name of a tranquilliser, in which Alfred Hrdlicka confronts mental illnesses and abnormalities at the end of the 1960s.
“The series is introduced with a ‘Prologue’ of striptease scenes which increasingly ‘degenerate’. With “Gummitod”, the artist poses the question of how close the world of experience of so-called well people is to that of the mentally ill.”
Michael Lewin, Alfred Hrdlicka Druckgraphik, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, 1989, p. 185
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art II |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 01.06.2017 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 20.05. - 01.06.2017 |
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