Sale: 22 / Online Sale, Dec. 11. 2022 
Lot 122001947
Lot 122001947
Frame image
122001947
Arnulf Rainer
Dunkelblaues Kreuz (Großes Kreuz II), 1980.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,300 Sold:
€ 21,875 / $ 24,718 (incl. surcharge)
Dunkelblaues Kreuz (Großes Kreuz II). 1980/81.
Drypoint.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 35 copies. On firm wove paper. 115 x 49.5 cm (45.2 x 19.4 in). Sheet: 134 x 62 cm (52,7 x 24,4 in).
[AW].
• Rainer describes the distinctive drypoint series "Große Kreuze" as metamorphoses
• A single aluminum plate forms the basis of the metamorphoses, on which the artist worked over years
• The cross is the key motif in the art of the famous Austrian artist .
PROVENANCE: Galerie Ulysses, Vienna.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 1996).
"The cross has become my basic figure. I just can't come up with anything else that challenges me so much and lets me work so eagerly and furiously, that's why I keep using it."
Arnulf Rainer, quoted from: Friedhelm Mennekes, Das Kreuz als Realpräsenz, in: Johannes Röhring, Arnulf Rainer – Kreuz-Weisen, Cologne 1992, p. 12.
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Drypoint.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 35 copies. On firm wove paper. 115 x 49.5 cm (45.2 x 19.4 in). Sheet: 134 x 62 cm (52,7 x 24,4 in).
[AW].
• Rainer describes the distinctive drypoint series "Große Kreuze" as metamorphoses
• A single aluminum plate forms the basis of the metamorphoses, on which the artist worked over years
• The cross is the key motif in the art of the famous Austrian artist .
PROVENANCE: Galerie Ulysses, Vienna.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 1996).
"The cross has become my basic figure. I just can't come up with anything else that challenges me so much and lets me work so eagerly and furiously, that's why I keep using it."
Arnulf Rainer, quoted from: Friedhelm Mennekes, Das Kreuz als Realpräsenz, in: Johannes Röhring, Arnulf Rainer – Kreuz-Weisen, Cologne 1992, p. 12.
To view artwork condition please click on the high-definition images and use the zoom function.
122001947
Arnulf Rainer
Dunkelblaues Kreuz (Großes Kreuz II), 1980.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,300 Sold:
€ 21,875 / $ 24,718 (incl. surcharge)
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