Lot 487 
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487
Hermann Nitsch
Malaktionsrelikt, Wiener Sezession, 1987.
Oil and blood on canvas-structured board on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900 Sold:
€ 47,500 / $ 53,674 (incl. surcharge)
Malaktionsrelikt, Wiener Sezession. 1987.
Oil and blood on canvas-structured board on canvas.
Signed, dated and inscribed in upper right. 100 x 176 cm (39.3 x 69.2 in). [EH].
• Nitsch is the most important representative of Viennese Actionism.
• Nitsch called his 20th painting action "Wiener Sezession" (Vienna Secession).
• Red is inseparably linked with Nitsch's work - as color of life and death at the same time.
• The Pour Pictures are a key series in his oeuvre.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 1990).
"Blood is the juice of life and the gushing red blood stands for injury, suffering, danger, death."
Quote from: artist. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, Munich 1990, p. 7.
Oil and blood on canvas-structured board on canvas.
Signed, dated and inscribed in upper right. 100 x 176 cm (39.3 x 69.2 in). [EH].
• Nitsch is the most important representative of Viennese Actionism.
• Nitsch called his 20th painting action "Wiener Sezession" (Vienna Secession).
• Red is inseparably linked with Nitsch's work - as color of life and death at the same time.
• The Pour Pictures are a key series in his oeuvre.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 1990).
"Blood is the juice of life and the gushing red blood stands for injury, suffering, danger, death."
Quote from: artist. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, Munich 1990, p. 7.
487
Hermann Nitsch
Malaktionsrelikt, Wiener Sezession, 1987.
Oil and blood on canvas-structured board on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900 Sold:
€ 47,500 / $ 53,674 (incl. surcharge)
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