Bunnies

Date
Artist
Sigmar Polke, German, b. Olesnica, Poland, 1941–2010
Provenance
Doris and Charles Saatchi, London, by September 1984
Private Collection, New York, by November 1990
Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York, to 15 May 1992
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and Purchase Funds, 1992
Exhibition History
JOSEF-HAUBRICH KUNSTHALLE, Cologne. "Sigmar Polke," 15 September-14 October 1984, no. 32, p. 165, ill. p. 65.
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. "Sigmar Polke," 15 November 1990-13 January 1991, no. 11, p. 10, frontispiece. TOUR: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 13 February-5 May; MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, 20 June-18 August 1991; BROOKLYN MUSEUM, 27 September-1 December.
KUNST UND AUSTELLUNGSHALLE DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND, Bonn, Germany. "Sigmar Polke: Die Drei Lugen der Malerei," 7 June-12 October 1997. TOUR: NATIONALGALERIE IM HAMBURGER BAHNHOF, MUSEUM FUR GEGENWART, Berlin, 30 October-15 February 1998.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," 7 October 1999-17 January 2000, no. 46. TOUR: HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, 11 February-30 April.
MUSEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, CENTRE POMPIDOU, Paris. "Les Annees Pop," 7 March-18 June 2001.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection," 26 July 2006-23 September 2007, no cat.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "International Pop," 18 February-15 May, 2016, no. 89, color ill. pg 296.
Published References
FUCHS, RUDI and HILTON KRAMER and PETER SCHJELDAHL. Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection Vol. 3 (London: Lund Humphries/Rizzoli, 1984), no. 66, p. 22.
STORR, ROBERT. "Polke's Mind Tattoos," Art in America 80 (December 1992), p. 71.
RICHARD, PAUL. "Gallery Acquires 2 German Moderns: Once Again, a Nod Toward Europe," Washington Post (30 October 1993), p. G3.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1996), pp. 118-119.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Teaching Art since 1950 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1999), p. 74, ill.
FINEBERG, JONATHAN. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000), fig. 11-1, p. 33.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 210, p. 233.
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School
European Contemporary
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and Purchase Funds, 1992
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
92.7
Type
Painting
Medium
Synthetic polymer on canvas
Dimensions
58 3/4 x 39 1/8 in. (149.2 x 99.3 cm)