ART & DESIGN

Photos: A Polke in the Eye

The Modern Museum of Art hosts a retrospective on the late, prankster and artist Sigmar Polke.

by Karen Rosenberg

Sigmar Polke

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Untitled [Quetta, Pakistan], 1974–1978. Photograph courtesy of Alex Jamison and the Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artist Rights Society, New York.

2

Negative Value II (Mizar), 1983. Photograph courtesy of Alistair Overbruck and Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society, New York.

3

Raster Drawing (Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald), 1963. Photograph courtesy of Wolfgang Morell and the Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society, New York.

4

Untitled (Rorschach), 1999. Photograph courtesy of Alistair Overbruck and the Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society, New York.