Der Eintrag
Los 81, das letzte Stück im Monaco-Katalog, gekauft von einer Cognac-Erbin – und Jahre später vom Künstler vor laufender Kamera neu bemalt, weil das Wetter es ruiniert hatte.
Die ausführliche Geschichte, die Herkunft und die Quellenangaben dieses Eintrags liegen bislang nur auf Englisch vor.
At the Monaco auction of 1990 the buyer was Ljiljana Hennessy, a former actress and heiress of the Hennessy cognac house. The fragment is 1.85 metres high, from Waldemarstraße, and carries certificate number 263. The catalogue attributed the red heart on it to Thierry Noir, which is wrong — it is a Kiddy Citny.
The mistake was corrected in the most direct way available. In a 2009 documentary by Elke Sasse and Stefan Pannen, funded by the Federal Foundation and titled with the same question this atlas asks, Citny is filmed at the Hennessy estate near Cognac renewing his own painting. The segment had spent time outdoors and wind and rain had worn the picture badly; it is now back in the tea house on the estate.
Hennessy says in the film that the fall of the Wall and the end of communist rule in central and eastern Europe meant something personal to her: in Yugoslavia, where she came from, much of life was governed by a comparable unfreedom until 1990.
Wie kam es hierher?
Lot 81 of the 1990 Monaco auction, a 1.85 metre fragment from Waldemarstraße with certificate number 263, painted by Kiddy Citny and repainted by him at the estate for a 2009 documentary.
Quellen
Gelistet von der Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung als #115 und vom Berlin Wall Archive als #190.
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
Ljiljana Hennessy's purchase of lot 81 at the Monaco auction, the 1.85 metre Waldemarstraße fragment with certificate number 263, the catalogue's misattribution to Thierry Noir and the correct attribution to Kiddy Citny, Citny repainting it on camera for the 2009 Sasse and Pannen documentary, its weathering outdoors and return to the estate tea house, and Hennessy's account of what 1989 meant to her.
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Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
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Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
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