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Sigmar Polke
[German Pop Artist, born in 1941]
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Original works by Sigmar Polke available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Bunnies, 1966 Stairwell (Treppenhaus), 1982
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Untitled, Düsseldorf, 1968
Sigmar Polke at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Untitled, 1975 (Zoom)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper, 1963-1974
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Sigmar Polke at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Hope is: Wanting to Pull Clouds, 1992
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas 3 works online
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland Picture of Palms with Trellis, 1967
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland Reiherbild II (Herons II)
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
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany 2 works online
Sigmar Polke in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian) NEW! 
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf untitled (vase), 1966
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Ashes to Ashes
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German) 
Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Why Can't I Stop Smoking?, 1964
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany 2 works online
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Pictures from Image Archives:
Sigmar Polke in 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
Miscellaneous Sites:
Collection New York (a private collector who has put some of his or her collection online) Untitled
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales 2 paintings online as you scroll down the page
The BBC sigmar polke 'history of everything'
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
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
Tate Gallery, London, UK Biography only
Time Magazine "Mocker of All Styles", 1999 article by Robert Hughes
"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. | |
look inside
 Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974
look inside
 Sigmar Polke: The Three Lies of Painting
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