- A.R. Penck (after). Authorized offset lithograph on heavyweight smooth satin paper. (300gsm approx.). - 1991. © A.R. Penck. - Stamp on verso. - Signed in the plate. - Size: 70 x 90cm. - Condition: excellent. Never framed, never exposed. - A.R. Penck, born as Ralf Winkler on October 5, 1939, in Dresden, Germany, and died on May 2, 2017, in Zürich, Switzerland, was a renowned German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and jazz drummer. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist style, characterized by simplified figures and forms, and neo-primitive symbols and patterns. His work is unique for its primitivist stick-figures and signs. Penck developed a visual language based on a simple system of signs, which he termed "standart". This language was both “universal” and “democratic”, and was developed in response to the trauma of the Second World War and the ensuing dystopia of the German Democratic Republic. Despite the oppressive communist government, Penck and his peers continued to create avant-garde art, often resulting in surveillance by the secret police. Penck’s artworks have been offered at auction multiple times, with prices that have reached up to to 687,211 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork6. In 2017, the average price for a Penck painting at auction was $113,412; by 2020, it had risen to a record $138,071. In 2022, the average price of a Penck painting exploded upwards to $250,360. Some artists of similar importance, Basquiat, Picasso, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Sorolla, Banksy, Brainwash, Miró, Nara, Soulages, Lagasse, Ramos, Rothko, Lautrec, Klimt, Matisse, Hirst, Chagall, Koons, Haring, Indiana, Mondrian, Groening, Richter, Monroe, Kusama, Murakami, Testa, Villemot, Oldenburg, Hopper, Ripolles, Wesselmann, Magritte, Jenk, Orlinski, Wille, Rizzi, Manara, Thiebaud, Herrera, Laurent, Klein, Coa, Dior, Vuitton, Kaws, Valentino, Cappiello, Kandinsky, Warhol, Buffa, Tura, Castle, Ponti, Knoll, Corbusier, rober, Johns, Starck, Breuer, Nelson, Mogensen, Ponti, Bertoia, Urquiola, Chillida. Magistretti, Gauguin, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Botero, Katz, Braque, Soulages, Hockney, among others.