OE 269a. 1955.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and inscribed "R" on the reverse, dated, titled and inscribed on the stretcher. 110 x 100 cm (43.3 x 39.3 in). [JS].

• Subtly modulated, early color field, the gentle oscillation between orange-red and blue hues makes it particularly fascinating.
• His works were exhibited in the Geiger retrospective at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in 1985 and in the Geiger exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, in 1988.
• Rupprecht Geiger's not only made the significant color modulations, but also shaped canvases that put him on a par with American contemporaries like Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Barnett Newman.
• Geiger's paintings have been shown in a number of exhibitions in the USA since the 1950s, in 1959 the artist was awarded the Solomon Guggenheim Prize in New York.
• Geiger's color modulations can be found in many public collections, among them the Lenbachhaus, Munich, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Müllheim/Ruhr.
Galerie Holzwarth, Stuttgart.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1991).

EXHIBITION: Deutscher Künstlerbund, 7th exhibition, Berlin 1957 (with the label on the stretcher).
Rupprecht Geiger. Retrospektive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1985 (with the shipping label on the stretcher).
ZEN 49, Die ersten zehn Jahre, Orientierung, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 1986.
Rupprecht Geiger, Haus der Kunst, Munich 1988, p. 189, cat. no. 39 (illu.).

LITERATURE: \cf1 Rupprecht-Geiger-Gesellschaft, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (ed.), edited by Pia Dornacher and Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Catalogue raisonné 1942-2002. Gemälde und Objekte, architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, p. 100, no. 229 (illu., there erroneously mentioned with the date "1958").