FÖRG, GÜNTHER
1952 Füssen - 2013 Freiburg
Title: "Canto II".
Date: 1990.
Technique: Acrylic on Canson-paper.
Measurement: 262 x 150cm.
Notation: Signed and dated upper centre: Förg 5/2/90. Additionally lower left titled: Canto 2.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
The work is registered in the Günther Förg Archive under the number WVF.90.C.0666. We are grateful to Mr Michael Neff of the Estate Günther Förg, Frankfurt a. M., for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work.
Provenance:
- Private collection Belgium
Exhibitions:
- Edition Julie Sylvester, New York, 1990
- Museum Fridericianum, Kassel 1990
Literature:
- Galerie Capitain Köln (ed.): Günther Förg - Große Zeichnungen, Cologne 1990, p. 131, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Günther Förg, Museum Fridericianum, Stuttgart 1990, p. 121, ill.
- Early work from the popular series of grid pictures
- Unmistakeable pictorial language of the artist through reduction to lines and surfaces
- The title refers to the series of works "The Cantos" by the American poet Ezra Pound.
