Untitled (Life Enigma)
2008
A mixed media sculpture by contemporary artist Anselm Reyle combining bronze, chrome, and enamel varnish. Created in 2008, this work demonstrates Reyle's interest in material exploration and enigmatic artistic expression.
- Medium
- bronze, chrome and enamel varnish
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Discoveries
June 26, 2024
Estimate: $24,000 to $34,000
Lot 27
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This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
“ I like the idea that kids as well as people who have nothing to do with art can also find their own access to my work. It’s as simple as standing and waiting to cross the road, when a truck drives by and you’re fascinated by the appearance of the hood. It is easy.” ANSELM REYLE
Artists in conversation
Jeff Koons
American · b. 1955
Koons similarly combines industrial materials like chrome and steel in sculptural works that celebrate reflective surfaces and material luxury, creating objects that blur the boundary between consumer culture and fine art abstraction.
John McCracken
American · b. 1934
McCracken worked extensively with highly polished and lacquered sculptural forms, exploring the relationship between industrial surface finishes and minimalist abstraction in ways that closely mirror Reyle's use of enamel and chrome.
Rudolf Stingel
Italian · b. 1956
Stingel shares Reyle's preoccupation with surface materiality and enigmatic abstraction, often incorporating metallic and industrially treated surfaces that carry a similar sense of glossy visual tension and contemporary material investigation.
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