IMI KNOEBEL (Dessau 1940–lives and works in Düsseldorf) Pure Freude (P.F.2). 2001. Lot of 4 acrylic on plastic paper with collage. Each signed, dated, titled and numbered on the reverse: Imi 2001 PF 2-4 6/7, as well as with the impressum on the original folder. Complete. Each 103 × 74 cm. Provenance: - Galerie Lelong, Zurich. - Purchased from the above in 2004, since then private collection Switzerland. "I don't want to come to anything but the colour. I apply the colours, use the colours and try to get another colour that way. I bring the colour into various contexts. Only then can it come, the freedom." Imi Knoebel

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