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Sigmar Polke
[German Pop Artist, 1941-2010]
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Sigmar Polke Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Sigmar Polke available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Kathereiner's Morning Wood
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Untitled, Düsseldorf, 1968
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper, 1963-1974
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Netherlands Click "works in collection"
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany Ohne Titel, 1981
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf untitled (vase), 1966
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Ashes to Ashes
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Why Can't I Stop Smoking?, 1964
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany 2 works online
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal Click on "P" and page forward for "Polke"
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales 2 paintings online as you scroll down the page
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Sigmar Polke at The Artchive
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The BBC sigmar polke 'history of everything'
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sigmar Polke Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Deutsche Bank Artmag Sigmar Polke in the Tate Modern
Frieze Magazine "Polke"
Frieze Magazine "Cosmic Rays"
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 81): Sigmar Polke
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 33): Sigmar Polke
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Sigmar Polke - sorry I missed you", 2010 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Moving targets", 2003 review by Adrian Searle
The New Yorker "Many-colored Glass", 2008 article by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker "Lens Crafter", brief 2009 review by Peter Schjeldahl
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974
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Sigmar Polke: The Three Lies of Painting
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