Sale: 534 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, Dec. 09. 2022 in Munich Lot 175

 

175
Markus Prachensky
Rot und grüne Flächen – Solitude II, 1964.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 55,000 / $ 59,400

(incl. surcharge)
Rot und grüne Flächen – Solitude II. 1964.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated, titled and inscribed with the dimensions and a direction arrow on the reverse. 165 x 100 cm (64.9 x 39.3 in).
[AR].
• High-contrast work from the group of the "Solitude" pictures, which the artist created in his Stuttgart studio as of 1964.
• The red forms sprawl across the canvas like charcters and collide with the green background.
• Shown at the "Große Kunstausstellung" at the Haus der Kunst in Munich a year after it was made, and was show again in the grand retrospective exhibition at the Kunstverein Hanover in 1970.
• Family-owned for more than 50 years
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (acquired directly from the artist, ever since family-owned).

EXHIBITION: Große Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 24 - October 3, 1965, cat. no. 272 (with the exhibition label on the reverse).
Markus Prachensky, Kunstverein Hanover, August 29 - September 27, 1970 (with illu. on p. 73).

"These pictures emanate a strange intimacy. They vibrate as if they were energized. [..] Colors and forms evoke contrasts so strong that the voltage ratio should be measurable."
Heinz Ohff about the Markus-Prachensky exhibition at Galerie Schüler, 1965, in: Tagesspiegel, Berlin, March 11, 1965.




175
Markus Prachensky
Rot und grüne Flächen – Solitude II, 1964.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 55,000 / $ 59,400

(incl. surcharge)