Sigmar Polke "Works on Paper 1963-1974"

4to. Softcover with paper wraps, 200 pp., 299 color illus., 27 BW illus. Copy is in near fine condition.

An incredible book that highlights the early work of the artist. Published to accompany the first American exhibition of these drawings shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999. More than 300 works are illustrated, including small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and others stamped with a dot screen process, as well as pages from over a dozen small sketchbooks and several monumental works on paper.

Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings focused on his perception of historical events. And he dropped LSD in the darkroom.