Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. 110 x 145 cm. . [JS].
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• A year before the present work was created, the artists' group SPUR (1957-1965), co-founded by Sturm, exhibited in New York for the first time.
• “Volvo” (1965) - A fascinating testimony to the examination of American Pop Art and Hard-Edge painting.
• In this short phase of his work, Sturm developed a fascinating pictorial language from elements of Pop Art, Op Art and Hard-Edge.
We are grateful to the SPUR e.V. committee in Munich for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
LITERATURE: Pia Dornacher / Bärbel Kleindorfer-Marx (eds.), Helmut Sturm. Works from 1957 to 1999, Cologne 1999, p. 70 (illu.). Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker / Pia Dornacher (eds.), Gruppe SPUR, exhibition catalog, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich 2006, p. 182 (illu.) Pia Dornacher, Lydia R. Hartl and Selima Niggl (eds.), Gruppe GEFLECHT, exhibition catalog, Rathhausgalerie Munich / Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt i. d. Oberpflaz, 2007, p. 44 (ill.) Annette Hüsch / Dörte Zbikowski (eds.), Dritte Welle. Die Gruppe SPUR, der Pop und die Politik, exhib. cat. Kiel 2013, p. 226/227 (ill.).