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Blauer Elefant
Neo Rauch (German, b. 1960)

Title

Blauer Elefant

Artist

Neo Rauch (German, b. 1960)

Date

2005

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

82 11/16 × 157 1/2 in. (210 × 400.1 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

The Phillip G. Schrager Collection. Gift of Terri L. Schrager

Object Number

2024.15.18

On View

On view

Copyright

© Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig/Berlin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Provenance

With David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 2005;
Purchased from David Zwirner Gallery, New York, by Mr. Phillip G. Schrager (1937–2010), Omaha, Nebraska, May 16, 2005–2010;
Inherited by his wife, Mrs. Terri L. Schrager (b. 1953), Omaha, Nebraska, by 2016;
Her gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2024.

Exhibition History

Neo Rauch: Renegaten, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, May 9–June 18, 2005.

Published References

Amy Baumann and Hanna Schouwink, eds., Neo Rauch: Renegaten, exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner Gallery, 2005), n.p., (repro.).

Janet Farber, “Collector Phillip Schrager,” interview by Michael Krainak, Artland, Spring 2012, 21, (repro.).

Karin Campbell, The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024), 96–97, 141, (repro.).