Lot 38
Lot 38
HELP! I AM A COLLECTOR. WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF BIRTE INGE CHRISTENSEN AND JOHN HUNOV
PER KIRKEBY (1938-2018)

Sportsvogn (om tegneserie- og biograf-annoncer, billedets sammentrængte billedsymbol) (A sports car (About the compact pictorial symbolism of the comic strip and cinema advertisement picture))

Price Realised GBP 9,450
Estimate
GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000
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PER KIRKEBY (1938-2018)

Sportsvogn (om tegneserie- og biograf-annoncer, billedets sammentrængte billedsymbol) (A sports car (About the compact pictorial symbolism of the comic strip and cinema advertisement picture))

Price Realised GBP 9,450
Price Realised GBP 9,450
Details
PER KIRKEBY (1938-2018)
Sportsvogn (om tegneserie- og biograf-annoncer, billedets sammentrængte billedsymbol) (A sports car (About the compact pictorial symbolism of the comic strip and cinema advertisement picture))
signed, titled and indistinctly dated 'Kirkeby 5-5-64 Bil' (on the reverse)
silver paint, gold paint and enamel on Masonite, in artist's frame
712 x 634in. (19 x 17.3cm.)
Executed in 1964
Provenance
Birte Inge Christensen and John Hunov Collection, Copenhagen.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J. Hunov, Birthe Inge Christensen & John Abildgaard Hunov's Samling af nutidig kunst, Copenhagen, 1975, no. 34.
A. Hejlskov Larsen, Per Kirkeby Paintings 1957-1977, Cologne, 2004, p. 318, no. M 62 (illustrated, p. 263).
Exhibited
Kultorvet, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Central Library, The Ex School's car exhibition, 1965.
Nykøbing Mors, Morsø Kunstforening, Per Kirkeby, 1965, no. 29.
Aarhus, Sammenslutningen af danske Kunstforeninger, Nye tendenser, 1965-1966, no. 61.
Hellerup, Gentofte Kommunes Kunstbibliotek, Dagligstuemuseet Birte Inge Christensen og John Abilgaard Hunovs Samling af nutidig kunst, 1975, no. 34.
Randers, Randers Kunstmuseum, Hjælp! Jeg er samler. Birte Inge Christensen og John Hunov's Samlinger, 1994, p. 24, no. 156.
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