Soft Lapping of Waves, Green (Leiser Wellenschlag, Grün)

Contemporary Art

2005

Per Kirkeby
Danish, 1938-2018

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Per Kirkeby
Title: Soft Lapping of Waves, Green (Leiser Wellenschlag, Grün)
Place: Denmark (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 2005
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 304.5 × 204.5 cm (119 7/8 × 80 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the New Carlsberg Foundation
Reference Number: 2021.133

Erik Steffensen, Stephan Kunz, Beat Wismer, Per Kirkeby: Kristall. Reflexionen, Beziehungen und Bezüge, exh. cat. (Aarua: Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2006), 36, 42-43 (color ill.), 163.
Sigfried Gohr, Per Kirkeby: Reisen in der Malerei und anderswo/Per Kirkeby: Journies in Painting and Elsewhere (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008), cover illustration, 28, 59, fig. 44, 60-61 (color ill.), 66, 70, fig. 44 (color ill.), 94, 171.
Poul Erik Tøjner, Per Kirkeby: Louisiana 2008, exh. cat. (Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2008), 27, 41, cat. 50, 172, as Leiser Wellenschlag, Grün, 2005 (Gentle Green Waves).
Poul Erik Tøjner, Per Kirkeby: Maleri (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2008), 118, 335 (color ill.).
Pernille Bech Christiansen, director, Per’s Method, DVD (Copenhagen: Danish Broadcasting System, 2008), 56 min.
Achim Borchardt-Hume, Per Kirkeby, exh. cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2009), 27, 39, 134-35 (color ill.), 161.
Sigfried Gohr, ed., Per Kirkeby Polarwind und leiser Wellenschlag/Polar Breeze and Gentle Lapping of Waves (Osterfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015), 34, 63, fig. 25 (color ill.), 64, 100-01 (color ill.), as Gentle Lapping of Waves, Green, 2005.
Faye Hays, “Lettuce and Dill Salad,” Faye Makes Food, Dec. 22, 2016, http://www.fayemakesfood.com/feed/2016/12/22/lettuce-dill-salad.
Christian Wind, Hommage à Per Kirkeby, exh. cat. (Copenhagen: Galleri Bo Bjerggard, 2018), n.p. (color Ill.).

Aarau, Switzerland, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Per Kirkeby: Kristall. Reflexionen, Beziehungen und Bezüge, Feb. 19–Apr. 30, 2006, no cat. no.
Humlebæk, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Per Kirkeby: Louisiana 2008, Sept. 2, 2008–Jan. 25, 2009, cat. 50, as Leiser Wellenschlag, Grün, 2005 (Gentle Green Waves).
London, Tate Modern, Per Kirkeby, June 17–Sept. 6, 2009, no cat. no.; Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Sept. 26, 2009–Jan. 10, 2010, no cat. no.
Copenhagen, Galleri Bo Bjerggard, Hommage à Per Kirkeby, Aug. 28–Oct. 27, 2018, no cat. no.
Berlin, Danish Embassy, Hommage à Per Kirkeby, Nov. 23, 2018–Jan. 11, 2019, no cat.

The artist, sold through Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, to Heinrich E. Schmid, Zurich, 2005 [according to email from Bo Bjerggaard, 11, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, to the New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, June 2018 [according to email from Frederikke Rahbek Juncker, February 2, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago June 8, 2021.

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