Lot 2. Anselm Kiefer (B.1945), Stefan!, titled and inscribed aller Tage Abend, aller Abende Tag., watercolor, gouache and ballpoint pen on paper, 8 1/8 by 11 1/8 in. 20.6 by 28.3 cm. Executed in 1975. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's

Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland 
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in January 1999

Exhibited: Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Anselm Kiefer, December 1987 - January 1989, pl. 20, p. 54, illustrated in color
Amiens, Musée de Picardie; Périgueux, Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Hommages: Hommes illustres, héros et hommes du commun, March - September 1997, p. 45, illustrated

Note: 

Threadsuns
above the grayblack wastes.
A tree-
high thought
grasps the light-tone: there are
still songs to sing beyond 
mankind.

Paul Celan, 1965-1967.

Sotheby's. Contemporary Curated featuring works from “In Its Own Light: Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen and Victoria Shaw”, New York, 02 Mar 2017, 10:00 AM