Hockney Leads $119.8 M. Sotheby’s Sale in London But Cattelan, Banksy, Uecker, Martinez Make the Bigger Splash

Other top lots in the sale included work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Christopher Wool, and Yves Klein.

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A. R. Penck, Neo-Expressionist Painter Whose Work Reflected on the Postwar German Condition, Dies at 77

In 1985, A. R. Penck told curator Klaus Ottmann that he didn't miss East Germany, where he had been born in 1939 and from which he was exiled in 1961. East Germany, Penck said, "disappeared in a…

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  Alex Greenberger
• May 3, 2017 4:33 pm

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A.R. Penck

German artist A.R. Penck’s paintings from the late 1960s and ’70s, which display stick figures and rudimentary markings, are today widely regarded as emblems of postwar existential angst and Cold War…

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  David Ebony
• Oct 24, 2016 2:42 pm

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‘A.R. Penck: Early Works’ at Michael Werner Gallery

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday

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• Dec 22, 2015 2:00 pm

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Keeping up with Chus Martinez at the Armory Show

Appointed to her post at El Museo in December, Martínez had just spent three years as part of the Documenta 13 curatorial team, while also serving as chief curator at MACBA, Barcelona. When you…

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  Brian Boucher
• Mar 7, 2013 10:34 am