Sale: 489 / Evening Sale, June 07. 2019 in Munich Lot 162

 

162
Günther Uecker
Hilfe für Vietnam, 1969.
. Nails, white paint and black chalk on canvas,...
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 187,500 / $ 202,500

(incl. surcharge)
Hilfe für Vietnam. 1969.
Nails, white paint and black chalk on canvas, on panel.
Not in Honisch. Signed and dated in lower right. Verso signed, dated and titled. 50 x 50 x 9 cm (19.6 x 19.6 x 3.5 in).

• Concentrated field characterized by subtle motion.
• Uecker's political and humanitaran plea against the Vietnam War
.

This work is registered in the Uecker Archiv under the number GU.69.101 and will be noted for inclusion in the forthcoming Uecker Catalogue Raisonné.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (until 2004).
Private collection Southern Germany (since 2004).

EXHIBITION: ZERO. Ausstellung Ketterer Kunst Berlin/Düsseldorf, March 20, 2015 - April 24, 2015, with illu.

"I think a white world is a more humane world [..]. These white structures can be a spiritual language which makes us meditate. The state white can be perceived as a prayer, its articulation of a spiritual event. The existence in white strongly differs from darkness [..], a drama of sorrow, where all deliverance is projected to the afterworld."
Quote from: Mack - Piene - Uecker, published by Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover, with contributions from Wieland Schmied, Günther Uecker et al, Hanover 1965, no.p.




162
Günther Uecker
Hilfe für Vietnam, 1969.
. Nails, white paint and black chalk on canvas,...
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 187,500 / $ 202,500

(incl. surcharge)