KLAPHECK, KONRAD
Düsseldorf 1935 - 2023
Title: Die Frau im Mann.
Date: 1990.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 169 x 124,5cm.
Notation: Signed and dated verso centre: Klapheck 90.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
The work is listed in the artist's catalogue raisonné (1990) under the number 203.
Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
- Popular typewriter motif in Klapheck's unmistakable "prosaic super-representationalism"
- Typewriters have been part of the artist's stylistic "machine cosmos" since the 1950s
- Work of museum quality
- Offered on the international auction market for the first time
- Rare synthesis of female and male form in his machine paintings.