Schreibtisch mit Akt. 1979.
Mixed media.
Signed and dated in the lower left. On firm wove paper. 99.7 x 69.7 cm (39.2 x 27.4 in). [EH].

• Explicitly vulgar, pornographic depiction - pure provocation, even in the late 1970s.
• In Polke's signature “layering” technique.
• Sigmar Polke is one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
• Sigmar Polke is exclusively represented by the David Zwirner Gallery.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Paris.
Private collection, Berlin (1994, Sotheby's, New York).

LITERATURE: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, auction 6617, Nov. 2, 1994, lot 236 a.
Sigmar Polke in an interview mit Bice Curiger, Parkett, no. 26, Zürich 1990, p. 15.