Title
Found it! replied the mouse rather sharply
1980-1981
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- Es! verseitzte die maus ziemlich scharf
- Date
- 1980-1981
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100.0 x 81.0 cm stretcher; 104.0 x 84.5 x 5.2 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed u.l., red paint "ML [in monogram]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the Contemporary Art Society, London 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 124.1984
- Copyright
- © Markus Lüpertz
- Artist information
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Markus Lupertz
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About
Like many German artists of his generation, Markus Lüpertz grappled with questions of what and how to paint in the aftermath of the Second World War. Many of his works from the 1980s, including this painting, merged elements of German expressionism with more recent American styles including abstract expressionism and pop art.
'Found it! replied the mouse rather sharply' belongs to a series of paintings that were inspired by fragments of dialogue from Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland (1865). The painting is not straightforwardly illustrative, but rather evokes the absurd, comical and sometimes menacing world conjured by Carroll’s story.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Unknown, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, United States of America, 17 May 1984–1984
Five years on: a selection of acquisitions 1981-1986, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 1986–23 Nov 1986
20th-Century galleries, lower level 1 (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Five years on: a selection of acquisitions 1981-1986, Sydney, 1986. cat.no. 126
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