Katharina Fritsch (b. 1956)
Schwarzer Schirm (Black Umbrella)
carbon, aluminium, plastic and lacquer
120.5 x 99.5 x 99.5cm.
Executed in 2004, this work is number six from an edition of sixteen

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, Bethesda.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 3-13 May 2016, lot 104.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

B. Glasner and P. Schmidt, Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color, Basel 2010 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 186-187).

New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Katharina Fritsch, 2004 (another from the edition exhibited).
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Katharina Fritsch, 2009-2010 (another from the edition exhibited and another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 96). This exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Katharina Fritsch: Multiples, 2017 (another from the edition exhibited).

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