ID 1163413
Lot 77 | KAI ALTHOFF (B. 1966)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
Erwachsen werden, Fabio (Growing Up, Fabio)
consecutively numbered '1' to '16' (on the reverse of each)
acrylic, crayon and graphite on paper, in sixteen parts
each: 11 5⁄8 x 16 3⁄8in. (29.4 x 41.6cm.)
Executed in 1991
Provenance
Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992.
Literature
N. Schafhausen (ed.), Kai Althoff. Gebärden und Ausdruck, Frankfurt 2002, pp. 168 and 172, nos. 6-7 and 83-98 (details illustrated in colour, pp. 50-51; illustrated, p. 120-121).
D. Rimanelli, ‘Kai Althoff’, in Artforum, vol. 43, no. 1, September 2004, p. 261 (incorrectly dated '1992'; detail illustrated in colour, p. 260).
O. Koerner von Gustorf, 'Cruising through the Work of Kai Althoff. SUPER Creeps', in Parkett, no. 75, 2005 (incorrectly dated '1996', details illustrated in colour, pp. 98-99).
Exhibited
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Kai KeinRespect (Kai NoRespect), 2004-2005, pp. 22 and 113, no. 22 (incorrectly dated '1992'). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art.
New York, Galerie Buchholz, Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space - Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity, 2017.
| Artist: | Kai Althoff (b. 1966) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Kai Althoff (b. 1966) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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