Sale: 22 / Online Sale, May 01. 2020 Lot 119000287
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119000287
Otto Piene
Feuergouache, 1962.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,840 Sold:
€ 11,954 / $ 12,790 (incl. surcharge)
Feuergouache. 1962.
Mixed media, pigment and fire.
Signed and dated in lower right. LInscribed by hand "19" in lower right. On light board. 31 x 43.5 cm (12.2 x 17.1 in), the full sheet.
From the first series of the fire gouaches.
Monochrome color aesthetics.
Accompanied by a photo expertise issued by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
"The color that suits fire the most is red."
Quote after: Otto Piene. Zero: Works from 1957-1966, p. 26.
Piene created his first fire gouaches on basis of the red-primed smoke drawings as of 1961. By igniting the applied fixative the color pigments gelatinize, this way Piene realizes one of the key issues of "ZERO": In a new artistic form he expresses man's return to nature. According to the artist his fire pictures are "survival studies, shaped expressions of a private purgatory. The most elementary opposites of solid matter. The fire gouaches on paper are the results of the transitions, nuances and prismatic realities and irrealities of painting" (quote from: Udo Kittelmann, Ein Bild für Bild, Otto Piene - Feuerräder! 2013). [EH]
In good condition. Tiny, skillfully closed hole in upper left.
Mixed media, pigment and fire.
Signed and dated in lower right. LInscribed by hand "19" in lower right. On light board. 31 x 43.5 cm (12.2 x 17.1 in), the full sheet.
From the first series of the fire gouaches.
Monochrome color aesthetics.
Accompanied by a photo expertise issued by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
"The color that suits fire the most is red."
Quote after: Otto Piene. Zero: Works from 1957-1966, p. 26.
Piene created his first fire gouaches on basis of the red-primed smoke drawings as of 1961. By igniting the applied fixative the color pigments gelatinize, this way Piene realizes one of the key issues of "ZERO": In a new artistic form he expresses man's return to nature. According to the artist his fire pictures are "survival studies, shaped expressions of a private purgatory. The most elementary opposites of solid matter. The fire gouaches on paper are the results of the transitions, nuances and prismatic realities and irrealities of painting" (quote from: Udo Kittelmann, Ein Bild für Bild, Otto Piene - Feuerräder! 2013). [EH]
In good condition. Tiny, skillfully closed hole in upper left.
119000287
Otto Piene
Feuergouache, 1962.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,840 Sold:
€ 11,954 / $ 12,790 (incl. surcharge)