Untitled
Artist
Anselm Kiefer
German, born 1945
Date1980–1986
MediumOil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac, lead, charcoal, and straw on photograph, mounted on canvas; with stones, lead, and steel cable; in three parts
DimensionsPanel with boulders: 130 1/4 x 73 in. (330.7 x 185.4 cm)
Panel with ladder: 130 5/8 x 72 5/8 in. (331.7 x 184.9 cm)
Panel with funnel: 130 1/4 x 72 7/8 in. (330.7 x 185.0 cm)
Panel with ladder: 130 5/8 x 72 5/8 in. (331.7 x 184.9 cm)
Panel with funnel: 130 1/4 x 72 7/8 in. (330.7 x 185.0 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina, W. R. Valentiner, and various donors, by exchange
Object number94.3/a-c
On View
On view"Contemporary Art from the Estate of Gerald S. Elliot," Christie's: New York (Wednesday, November 2 and Thursday, November 3, 1994), 44, lot 16, illus. (color).
Carol Vogel, "At $3.6 Million, Warhol's 'Marilyn' is a Star Again," The New York Times (November 3, 1994), C19.
Chuck Twardy, "Top bid yields three of a kind for museum," Raleigh: The News and Observer (November 4, 1994), 1B, 5B.
"'Happenings in the Arts'..." Spotlight on the Arts (November 13, 1994), 49, 50.
Peter C. DuBois, "Art Marriage," Barron's (November 13, 1994), 24.
Chuck Twardy, "A unique and difficult work," Raleigh: The News and Observer (December 1, 1994), 1E, illus. 6E.
Max Halperen, "A Monumental Acquisition," Raleigh: Spectator Magazine (December 1, 1994).
Ann Berman and Roger Bevan, "Contemporary Art: Blondes with Ambition," The Art Newspaper, no 43 (December 1994), 33.
Dorothy S. Gelatt, "Cover Girls Spark Contemporary Auctions," Maine Antiques Digest (January 1995), C26-27.
John Coffey, "Anselm Kiefer's Untitled Triptych," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview, Annual Report (Winter 1994-95), 2-5, illus. (color) cover, 2, details (b-w) 4-5.
Joe Ashby Porter, "In the Mind," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 134-136, illus. (color) 134.
Mary Ann Frese Witt, et al, The Humanities: Cultural Roots and Continuities, 5th ed., Vol. 2: The Humanities and the Modern World (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997), discussed 527, illus. (color) pl. XXXVI.
Betty Adcock, "Untitled Triptych," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 137-39, illus. (color details) 137, 139. Reprinted in Intervale: New and Selected Poems, by Betty Adcock (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001) 46-48, 180, illus (b-w) 44-45.
Blue Greenberg, "Taxpayers can view works their money bought," Durham Herald-Sun, Preview Section (September 26, 1997), 4, illus. (b-w).
John Hallmark Neff, "A 'Gnostic' Triptych by Anselm Kiefer." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), 70-89, illus. (color) 70, details (b-w) 81, 84, 85, detail (color) 89.
John W. Coffey, entry for Untitled, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 243-44, illus. (color) 243, detail (color) 245.
Caitlin Cleary, "Their art's desire," Raleigh: The News and Observer (August 1, 2004), discussed 6G, illus. (color) 1G.
Max Halperen, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," (exhibition review) Art Papers (November/December 2004), discussed 45.
John W. Coffey, entry for Untitled, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 518-19, illus. (color) 521, detail (color) 520, also mentioned 9.
Malena Mörling, "Not a Ladder, a Door" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 56.Exhibition HistoryAmsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Anselm Kiefer: Bilder 1986-1980, December 20, 1986-February 8, 1987, no. 31, illus. (color) 83, also (b-w) 8, 17.
Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, Anselm Kiefer, December 5, 1987-January 31, 1988; Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 6-May 1, 1988; Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, June 14-September 11, 1988; New York, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, October 17, 1988-January 3, 1989, listed 169; discussed 138, illus. (color) pl. 78.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and La Grande Halle, La Villette, Magiciens de la Terre, May 18-August 14, 1989, not in catalogue.
Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art, May 12-July 29, 1990, no. 70, discussed 152-53, illus. (color) pl. 98
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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