record for the artist at $9.2 million. Meanwhile, Untitled (São Paolo Series) (1975, a series of 10 photographs ten large photographic images which Polke made for the São Paulo Biennial in 1975, sold at Christie's London in February 2006 for £568,000 ($988,000). Dschungel (Jungle) (1967), a romantic landscape from that used magnified Benday dots from a newspaper in the style of Roy Lichtenstein, sold from the collection of Count Christian Duerckheim to an unidentified telephone bidder for $9.2 million at Sotheby's in 2011; by 2015, it sold again for $27.1 million. The Estate of Sigmar Polke has been established by his heirs—his widow, artist Augustina Baroness von Nagel, daughter Anna Polke, and son Georg Polke—to build up an archive in the artist's Cologne studio. The Estate also administers the artist's intellectual property rights. A Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, photographs and works on paper is currently being prepared by the Estate. Awards 1964: "Neodada Pop Decollage Kapitalistischer Realismus", Galerie René Block, Berlin; Awarded the Young Germans award in Baden-Baden with Klaus Geldmacher and Dieter Krieg 1975: Awarded the prize for painting at the XIII Bienal de São Paulo 1986: Awarded a "Golden Lion" at the XLII Biennale di Venezia (shared with Frank Auerbach) 1988: Awarded the 1988 Baden-Württemberg International Prize for Painting 1994: Awarded the "Erasmus Prize" (Amsterdam) 1995: Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1998: International Center of Photography, Infinity Award for Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York 1999: Wolf Prize (which he refused to accept) 2000: Awarded the "Goslarer Kaiserring", Goslar, Germany 2002: "Praemium Imperiale" awarded by the Japan Art Association, Tokyo 2007: Awarded the "Rubens Prize" (Siegen, Germany) 2008: Foreign Honorary Member in the Field of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2009: Honorary Member in the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2010: Awarded the "Roswitha Haftmann Prize", Zurich See also The Portrait Now References External links Obituary in The New York Times Current exhibitions and connection to galeries at Artfacts.Net Exhibitions and literature Portrait of the artist by the Goethe-Institut Sigmar Polke 1941 births 2010 deaths Abstract painters German pop artists Postmodern artists 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists Photographers from North Rhine-Westphalia People from Oleśnica People from the Province of Lower Silesia Deaths from cancer in Germany Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni German contemporary artists