ID 1337769
Lot 40 | Steven Parrino.Lucifer's Hammer
Estimate value
€ 450 000 – 650 000
New York 1958 - 2005
Title: "Lucifer's Hammer".
Subtitle: Diptych.
Date: 1989.
Technique: Each: enamel lacquer on canvas.
Measurement: 123 x 183cm.
Notation: One picture signed, dated and titled verso on the stretcher centre left: S. Parrino 89 Lucifers Hammer. One picture monogrammed, dated and titled: SP. 89 Lucifer's Hammer. Each additionally numbered and with installation instructions verso.
Provenance:
- Private collection Germany (directly form the artist)
Exhibitions:
- Kunstparterre, Munich 2013
- Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2019
- Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz 2020
Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Hyper! A Journey Into Art and Music, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Cologne 2019, p. 15, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Steven Parrino, Nihilism is Love, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Cologne 2020, p. 99, ill.
- Parrino is one of the most influential artist personalities of the New York art scene of the 1980s and 1990s
- His "misshaped paintings" are characterised by a radicalism that testifies to a deep understanding of the history of painting
- Title refers to the science fiction novel of the same name by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, published in 1977
- Part of the major 2020 retrospective at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
| Auction house category: | Post War paintings, drawings, watercolours |
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