ID 1515001
Lot 29 | Günther Uecker. Lichtkasten
Estimate value
€ 180 000 – 240 000
1930 Wendorf - 2025 Düsseldorf
Title: "Lichtkasten".
Date: 1966.
Technique: Hammered-in nails and white paint on canvas, on a wooden disc. In wooden box, polychromed white. Illuminated and wired for electricity.
Measurement: 80 x 80 x 17cm.
Notation: Twice signed and titled on the back of the front wooden panel at the top: Uecker Lichtkasten.
The work is fully functional.
This work is registered in the Uecker Archive under the number GU.66.035 and will be noted for inclusion in the forthcoming Uecker catalogue raisonné.
Provenance:
- Gimpel Fils Gallery, London (label)
- Sotheby's, London, Auction 22nd October 1998, lot 38
- Galerie Heseler, Munich (acc. to consignor)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature:
- Honisch, Dieter: Uecker, Stuttgart 1983, cat. rais. no. 503, ill.
- Kinetic light object from the ZERO period
- From the small group of works known as 'Light Discs' with which Uecker achieved a new aesthetic dimension from 1961 onwards
- Captivating visual power through the interplay of moving light and shadow.
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