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Lot 139W

Igael Tumarkin
(Israeli, born 1933)
Untitled, 1965 180 x 180 x 30cm (70 7/8 x 70 7/8 x 11 13/16)

29 February 2012, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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Igael Tumarkin (Israeli, born 1933)

Untitled, 1965
signed and dated 'Tumarkin 65' (lower left)
mixed media on wood
180 x 180 x 30cm (70 7/8 x 70 7/8 x 11 13/16)

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PROVENANCE:
Acquired in 1974
The Peter Stuyvesant Collection (later the British American Tobacco Collection), Netherlands

Avigdor Poseq describes a similar work by Tumarkin from 1964 as follows:"The fragments are scattered over the flat background, breaking it in several places. The violence of the explosion is emphasized by dashes of dripping red paint which suggest a wounded living organism. The wooden fragments and the red stains extend into the third section....Because Tumarkin avoided spelling out the conceptual significance of this work, its dramatic effect may be seen as generic representation of the cursing power of aggressive violence: however, the mechanical components also allow one to understand it is a warning against the destructiveness of modern technology."

BIBLIOGRAPHY
M.Omer, 90 Years of Israeli Art: a selection from Joseph Hackmey-Israel Phoenix Collection, (Tel Aviv,1998), p.456

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