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New Bond Street, London I 22 October 2020 New Bond Street, Post-War & Contemporary Art Contemporary & Post-War Post-War & Contemporary Art I New Bond Street, London I 22 October 2020 25973 Detail lot 18 Detail lot 34 Detail lot 1 Detail lot 7 Detail lot 12 Post-War & Contemporary Art New Bond Street, London I Thursday 22 October 2020 at 5pm VIEWING ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES REGISTRATION 101 New Bond Street, London Ralph Taylor Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm IMPORTANT NOTICE +44 (0) 20 7447 7403 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Please note that all customers, Saturday 17 October 11am - 5pm [email protected] irrespective of any previous activity Sunday 18 October 11am - 5pm As a courtesy to intending with Bonhams, are required to Monday 19 October 10am - 5pm Giacomo Balsamo bidders, Bonhams will provide a complete the Bidder Registration Tuesday 20 October 10am - 5pm +44 (0) 20 7468 5837 written indication of the physical Form in advance of the sale. The Wednesday 21 October 10am - 5pm [email protected] condition of lots in this sale if a form can be found at the back of Thursday 22 October 10am - 2pm request is received up to 24 hours every catalogue and on our website Clémence Tasiaux before the auction starts. This at www.bonhams.com and should Viewing by appointment +44 (0) 20 7468 5879 written Indication is issued subject be returned by email or post to the recommended. Please note [email protected] to Clause 3 of the Notice to Bidders. specialist department or to the bids that Bonhams observe social department at [email protected] distancing guidelines in our Irene Sieberger ILLUSTRATIONS salerooms and we ask that +44 (0) 20 7468 5873 Front cover: Lot 4 To bid live online and / or leave all clients wear masks or face [email protected] internet bids please go to Back cover: Lot 8 coverings when attending www.bonhams.com/auctions/25973 our viewings or auctions. Anna Smith and click on the Register to bid link +44 (0) 20 7468 8287 PRESS ENQUIRIES at the top left of the page. SALE NUMBER [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7468 5871 [email protected] 25973 Oliver Morris-Jones CATALOGUE +44 (0) 20 7468 5878 [email protected] £30.00 BIDS THANKS TO +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 [email protected] Giulia Berbotto To bid via the internet Linda Borgioni please visit bonhams.com Yoko Chino David Jones Telephone bidding Itziar Ramos Please note that bids should Simonetta be submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the sale. New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bid not being processed. Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with ‘live bidding’ in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax International Post-War & Contemporary Art Specialists London Ralph Taylor Global Head Giacomo Balsamo International Director Clémence Tasiaux Head of Department Irene Sieberger Specialist, Head of Sale Brussels Cassi Young Specialist, Head of Sale Yao Yao Director Private Clients, China Anna Smith Cataloguer Christine de Schaetzen Specialist Paris New York Chicago Emilie Millon Specialist Jacqueline Towers-Perkins Vice President, Director Andrew Huber Specialist Amy Thompson Director International Business Development Los Angeles San Francisco Sharon Squires Senior Director Sonja Moro Specialist Laura Bjorstad Specialist Amelia Manderscheid Vice President Asia Dorothy Lin Specialist, Head of Sale Ryo Wakabayashi Consultant International Representatives Europe Catherine Yaiche Paris Emma Dalla Libera Rome Victoria Rey-de-Rudder Geneva Livie Gallone-Moeller Geneva Benedetta Alpini Milan Andrea Bodmer Zurich Thomas Kamm Munich Eva Lengler Dusseldorf Kieran O’Boyle Dublin Koen Samson Amsterdam Johann Leibbrandt Madrid Teresa Ybarra Barcelona Asia Filipa de Andrade Lisbon Edward Wilkinson Executive Director, Asia Bernadette Rankine Singapore Vivian Zhang Beijing Sale Information BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & STORAGE AND HANDLING VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE CHARGES ON SOLD LOTS The following symbols are used To bid via the internet please visit LOTS MARKED TP RETURNED TO CADOGAN TATE to denote that VAT is due on www.bonhams.com the hammer price and buyer’s All sold lots marked TP will be Storage premium. PAYMENTS removed to Cadogan Tate, 241 Storage will be free of charge Buyers Acton Lane, London, NW10 7NP for the first 14 calendar days † VAT 20% on hammer price and +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 on Friday 23 October 2020 from & including the sale date buyer’s premium & will be available for collection Thursday 22 October 2020. 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Bond Street free of charge until (Please note: Charges apply every 5.30pm Thursday 5 November 2020 day including weekends and lots not collected by this time will be Public Holidays). will be returned to the department and storage charges may apply. entral iddlese cton Ln ospital ark oyal cton Ln Cadogan Tate oronation oad W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a ark l C oyal iestern e 0 R o Station a 0 d 0 cton 0 North 4 emetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton orn Lane Station Post-War & Contemporary Art Lots 1 - 46 Detail lot 20 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION 1 AR A. R. PENCK (1939-2017) Standart TTABTTT 5 1984 signed and titled acrylic on canvas 160 by 130 cm. 63 by 51 3/16 in. This work was executed in 1984. £110,000 - 160,000 US$140,000 - 210,000 €120,000 - 180,000 Provenance Waddington Galleries, London Private Collection, New York Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 8 October 1986, Lot 95 Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York (AP102) Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke Acquired directly from the above by the present owner circa 1987 Exhibited London, Waddington Galleries, A.R. Penck, 1984 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 14 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. Detail lot 1 Teeming with the symbols, cyphers and metaphors embedded In Standard TTABTTT 5 a monumental, almost life-sized central in A.R. Penck’s practice and executed at a pivotal moment stick figure, part man, part abstract primitive deity, is surrounded in his career, Standard TTABTTT 5 is consummate example by the rudimentary shapes and symbols that form Penck’s from the artist’s celebrated oeuvre. Having remained in the artistic language. Executed in the vibrant colours Penck began same collection for over thirty years, the present work is a to use more after emigrating to the West, the work conveys a rare opportunity to acquire a painting, not only entirely fresh to vibrant energy and confident execution of an artist at the height the market, but also permeated with the intense atmosphere of his career. Whilst this phase of his life coincided with a period and raw vitality found in all of the artists best known and most of disillusionment caused by the major upheaval in his life, it coveted works in private and institutional collections.