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Modern & Contemporary Art - Auction ends: April 15, 2026 from 3:00 pm

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Gustav Kluge - Oil on canvas
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Gustav Kluge
Konterfei Pangäa, 1995
Oil on canvas
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Estimate:
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143
Gustav Kluge
Konterfei Pangäa, 1995
Oil on canvas
Starting bid:
€ 3,500
Estimate:
€ 4,000 - 6,000
End: 04-15-26 16:11:00 Berlin
04-15-26 10:11:00 New York
04-15-26 07:11:00 Los Angeles (30 days, 16h:43m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
Nonstandard size: shipping on request.


After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.


Gustav Kluge
1947
Konterfei Pangäa. 1995.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated "Okt. 95" and titled on the reverse. 170 x 100 cm (66.9 x 39.3 in). [JS].

• Painting the emotion of the soul: Kluge's expressive figurations are both captivating and disturbing.
• “Konferfei Pangäa” refers to the primordial continent of the same name, which already encompassed all of the Earth's later land masses.
• Kluge co-founded the Produzentengalerie Hamburg in 1973 and was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe until 2014.
• In 2012, the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen presented the major retrospective “Gustav Kluge. Egocinem”.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

"[..] The creation of identity is always associated with aggression and destruction. This view seems to be related to Arnulf Rainer's overpaintings—in Kluge's work, obliteration is always a painterly and thus also a creative strategy."
Quoted from: Spieler, Gustav Kluge. Egocinema, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 2012, p. 17.

In good condition. Small puncture mark on the lower right corner of the canvas.