Lot 18
Zuerst die Füße (Feet First)
Passed
Est £500,000 - £700,000 ‡ ♠
Live Auction
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ARTIST
Martin Kippenberger
Size
130 x 100 x 22 cm (51 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
Description

Medium
wood, automobile lacquer and steel nails
Signature
Executed in 1991, this work is from a series of 5 unique variants plus 2 artist’s proofs.
Provenance
Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Karola Grässlin, ed., Catalogue Raisonné: Kippenberger Multiples, exh cat., Kunstverein Braunschweig; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, 2003, no. 37, pp. 74-75 (other examples illustrated) Manfred Hermes, Martin Kippenberger, Cologne, 2005, pp. 110-111, 159 (another example illustrated) Peter Popham, ‘The frog stays, whatever Pope thinks’, The New Zealand Herald, 29 August 2008 (another example illustrated, online) Julie Bloom, ‘Crucified-Frog Sculpture Troubles the Pope’, The New York Times, 28 August 2008 (online) Tim Ackermann, ‘Frosch sei Dank: Kunst kann doch noch provozieren’, Welt am Sonntag, 31 August 2008, online Martin Kippenberger Eggman II, exh. cat., Skarstedt Gallery, New York, 2011, fig. 2, p. 3 (another example illustrated)
Exhibited
Vienna, Jänner Galerie, Hotel Hotel zum Letzten, November-December 1990 (other examples exhibited) Ystad, Konstmuseum, Martin Kippenberger in Tirol, Sammlung Widauer, 16 September-12 November 2000, pp. 79, 99, 117 (installation view illustrated, pp. 79, 117; illustrated, pp. 99) New York, Luhring Augustine, Martin Kippenberger–Self-Portraits, 5 March-30 April 2005, pp. 50-51, 71 (illustrated, p. 51) Bolzano, Museion Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper, 24 May-21 September 2008, p. 200 (another example exhibited and illustrated) Geneva, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Political Corect, 18 September-25 October 2008 (another example exhibited) Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective, 21 September 2008-11 May 2009, pp. 345, 350 (illustrated, p. 350) Berlin, Museum für Gegenwart; Hamburger Bahnhof, Die Kunst ist super, 5 September 2009-14 February 2010 (another example exhibited) Berlin, Museum für Gegenwart; Hamburger Bahnhof, Martin Kippenberger: sehr gut | very good, 23 February-18 August 2013 (another example exhibited) Paris, Cahiers d’Art, Martin Kippenberger, 3 March-6 June 2015 (another example exhibited) Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Martin Kippenberger: XYZ, 8 September-27 November 2016, no. 39, pp. 183, 306 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 183; installation view illustrated, p. 306)