541/69. 1969.
Acrylic on canvas.
Dornacher/Geiger 516. Signed, inscribed with the work number and a direction arrow on the reverse. Once more signed on the stretcher, as well as inscribed with the work number and the dimensions. 100 x 90 cm (39.3 x 35.4 in).
[AM].

• Radiant composition with a remarkably suggestive effect.
• Impressive soft modulation by Rupprecht Geiger, the most important representative of German Color Field Painting.
• The reduction and concentration of form and color in Geiger's œuvre peaked with paintings like "541/69".

We are grateful to Mrs Julia Geiger, Archive Geiger, Munich, for her kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (with a label on the reverse).
Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 2002, Ketterer Kunst, Munich).

LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 277th auction, December 6, 2002, lot 201.
Pia Dornacher, Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Werkverzeichnis. Gemälde und Objekte, Architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, p. 193, no. 516 (with illu. p. 195).
AD Architectural Digest (Spanish edition), no. 74, November 2012, (illu. without page).