Etching on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark)
Germany, 1980s
A.R. Penck (b. 1939) – German painter and graphic artist
Signed lower right in pencil ‘a.r. penck’
Numbered lower left in pencil ‘10/20’
Plate dimensions: 53,7 x 82 cm
Very good condition
A.R. Penck is one of the most important contemporary artists; his etchings fetch up to 2,400 euro at international auctions

This etching from the 1980s was printed in a small edition of only 20 copies. On a ground of a fine lineament the composition is placed in strong etching line. It fills the image area and reveals only after closer inspection figural elements among the abstract characters and forms. To the left there is a standing female nude, at its feet a face and to the right a monkey-like figure.

The etching is signed lower right in pencil ‘a.r. penck’ and numbered lower left in pencil ‘10/20’. The margins show minor rippling and bears a small, unremarkable stain at the upper right edge. The sheet is overall in very good condition. The plate measures 53.7 x 82 cm, the sheet 73.2 x 100.4 cm.

A. R. Penck (b. 1939)

Born in Dresden in 1939, the painter and sculptor Ralf Winkler adopted several pseudonyms. ‘A. R. Penck’ was the name that followed through and that he is today famous for. He started taking drawing lessons with Strawalde. In the early 1950s, he was trained as an advertising artist. In 1966, he adopted the pseudonym ‘A. R. Penck’. As off 1973, he also signed his works with ‘Mike Hammer’, ‘T. M.’ or ‘Y.’. Whilst his work was under various restrictions in the German Democratic Republic, he received the Will-Grohmann Award from the Academy of Arts in West Berlin in 1975. In 1976, he made the acquaintance of the artist Jörg Immendorff, with whom he collaborated for a few years. In 1980, Penck moved to West Germany. Three years later, he settled in London, and in 1988 he moved to Düsseldorf for a job as a professor for painting at the Academy of Arts. After his retirement in 2003, he settled in Dublin, where he lives and works today. Works by A.R. Penck are on display in major museums collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt/Main, the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. (fea)

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