Drilling. 1985/86.
Assemblage. Coat hanger, brush, wood, glue and oil paint on glass, over plywood panels painted with oil paint, covered with glass on the back, in orig. aluminum frame.
Signed and dated on the right hanger, titled under each hanger. Barely legibly inscribed in upper center. Once more signed and dated on the reverse. 51.4 x 95.5 x 3.5 cm (20.2 x 37.5 x 1.3 in).
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• Same and yet different: Dieter Roth's "Drilling" work plays with multiple levels of association.
• The use of everyday objects, such as coat hangers and brushes here, is one of the basic principles of his artistic work.
• Exhibited alongside works by his partner Dorothy Iannone at the Sprengel Museum in 2005, .
• Works by the artist are in international museums like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Britain, London, the art museums in Bern and Basel, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

The authenticity of the present work was confirmed by Dr. Dirk Dobke, Dieter Roth Foundation, Hamburg, to whom we are grateful for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland.
Galerie Andy Jllien, Zürich.
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (acquired fom the above in 2001).

EXHIBITION: Dieter Roth, Lagerhalle Holderbank, Ocotber 23, 1992 - March 19, 1993.
Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone, Sprengel Museum Hanover, in cooperation with the Foundation Ahlers Pro Arte, May 22 - September 25, 2005, p. 222, cat. no. 72 (fig. p. 98).

LITERATURE: Galerie Burkard, auction 47, Lucerne, June 5, 1999, lot 229.

In good condition. The silver aluminum frame is part of the artwork, the plexiglass box with white backing was not made by the artist. Small paint chips in the lower center and on the left edge. The glass cracked in the upper right corner, but this is probably partly owed to the production process. A semi-circular defect in the lower left of the glass on the reverse, probably inherent to the work.