As of May 20, 2025

Imi Knoebel

Lot 29
Sonia, 1992
Acrylic on panel

78.7 x 55.1 in (200.0 x 140.0 cm)

Lot 29
Sonia, 1992
Acrylic on panel
78.7 x 55.1 in (200.0 x 140.0 cm)

Estimate:
€ 100,000 - 120,000
Auction: 2 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
Auction: Jun 06, 2025
Auction number: 590
Auction name: Evening Sale

Lot Details
Acrylic on panel. Signed and dated as well as typographically titled on a label on the reverse. 200 x 140 cm.

• A rare large-format work from Imi Knoebel's portrait series.
• In Knoebel's famed portrait series, he took the stylization of the human head, which Alexej von Jawlensky initiated in his “Meditations,” to an extreme.
• Through the individual color combinations and brushwork, Knoebel lends the three-dimensional wooden body a “painterly incarnation” and individual character.
• Most recently, Knoebel's works were on view in the exhibition “Imi Knoebel. Green Flag” at White Cube, Hongkong (2023), and in the exhibition ‘Balance’ at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2022).
• Works by Imi Knoebel are in possession of important international collections like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf. German corporate collection (acquired from the above in September 1992)
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de
Lot Details
Acrylic on panel. Signed and dated as well as typographically titled on a label on the reverse. 200 x 140 cm.

• A rare large-format work from Imi Knoebel's portrait series.
• In Knoebel's famed portrait series, he took the stylization of the human head, which Alexej von Jawlensky initiated in his “Meditations,” to an extreme.
• Through the individual color combinations and brushwork, Knoebel lends the three-dimensional wooden body a “painterly incarnation” and individual character.
• Most recently, Knoebel's works were on view in the exhibition “Imi Knoebel. Green Flag” at White Cube, Hongkong (2023), and in the exhibition ‘Balance’ at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2022).
• Works by Imi Knoebel are in possession of important international collections like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf. German corporate collection (acquired from the above in September 1992)
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de

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