Papillon (Nina de Montparnasse). 2009 /2013.
Mixed media . Transfer print and gesso on dyed cotton, mounted on two stretchers.
Signed and inscribed with direction arrow on folded cotton. Verso of the stretcher with another direction arrow, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. 200 x 120 cm (78.7 x 47.2 in).
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PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: \cf1 Axel Heil. Herr Ober, ein Stühlchen, bitte, die Dame möchte unten weiter essen, Galerie Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe January 18th - February 22nd 2014.
Axel Heil, Pfandhaus Adorno, 8. Salon, Hamburg January 31st - March 7th 2015.

"I'd like to draw a line between rules and craftmanship: To me the modernist theory that art always needs a breach of rules, an "innovative value", seems unsuitable in practice. If you look around you see that a good share of art lives on piracy - old ideas in new makeup. [..] To me "good" art is technically well-made art.“
Axel Heil in an interview with Jana Nolte, January 2013