“We lost favour with some people too – art-lovers, gallerists, museum people – when we supported Kippenberger. He was unserious. They said, ‘Do you want to go with the monkey house or with us? I said I’d rather stay with the monkey house, thank you – or rather, that that was real art.
Not the stuff you think art is.”
—Albert Oehlen
Provenance
Galerie Klein, Bonn Private Collection, North Rhine-Westfalia Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 4 - 5 June 2008, lot 381 Private Collection Sotheby's, London, 28 May 2020, lot 29 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Bonn, Galerie Klein, Martin Kippenberger + Albert Oehlen "Frauen im Leben meines Vaters", 10 December 1983 - 14 January 1984
signed 'A. Oehlen' lower right; signed and dated 'm.kippenberger 83' on the reverse oil on canvas 150.4 x 59.9 cm (59 1/4 x 23 5/8 in.) Executed in 1983.