LOT 61 Fritz Köthe (1916 Berlin - 2005 ebenda) - 'Vorsicht fri...
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Fritz Köthe (1916 Berlin - 2005 ibid) 'Vorsicht frisch geölt', tempera and oil on canvas, 90 cm x 70 cm, monogrammed, dated 1964, additionally signed, dated and titled on the reverse, with some stains and scratchesLiterature: Cat. rais. Ohff, pl. 39The painter and commercial artist Fritz Köthe was among the leading proponents of the Pop Art and Photorealism movements in Germany. As a traveller between east and west, painting and graphic art, he experienced his first artistic success in the 1960s when he began painting exceedingly realistic close ups of advertising motifs in the manner of the American pop artists. In his monograph on the artist, Heinz Ohff writes of how Köthe transformed the "trite, mundane surrealism that surrounded him - and us - each day like a second nature" in high-contrast, hyperrealistic compositions. In this masterfully painted photorealistic depiction of a mechanic's workshop, a seductively dressed young woman kneels between a red hand-held vacuum cleaner and warning signs with a hand placed provocatively on her hip.
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