Lot 133 
Raumbeispiel
133
Arnulf Rainer
Übermalung, 1959.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200 Sold:
€ 53,340 / $ 57,607 (incl. surcharge)
Übermalung. 1959.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. 38.5 x 24.5 cm (15.1 x 9.6 in). [EH].
• Arnulf Rainer is one of the most important artists of the Austrian post-war avant-garde
• Of extraordinary luminosity.
• Overpainting is still considered the central principle of Rainer's work and a significant contribution to European post-war art.
• Rainer was represented at documenta II in Kassel in the year this work was created.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Austria.
"Rainer paints his own individuality out of the pictures, but he tries to give the pictures their own individuality precisely by doing so: something flat, plump, soft, dense, moving, flowing or calm."
Dieter Honisch, in: ex. cat. Arnulf Rainer, Nationalgalerie Berlin et al, 1980/81, p. 46.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. 38.5 x 24.5 cm (15.1 x 9.6 in). [EH].
• Arnulf Rainer is one of the most important artists of the Austrian post-war avant-garde
• Of extraordinary luminosity.
• Overpainting is still considered the central principle of Rainer's work and a significant contribution to European post-war art.
• Rainer was represented at documenta II in Kassel in the year this work was created.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Austria.
"Rainer paints his own individuality out of the pictures, but he tries to give the pictures their own individuality precisely by doing so: something flat, plump, soft, dense, moving, flowing or calm."
Dieter Honisch, in: ex. cat. Arnulf Rainer, Nationalgalerie Berlin et al, 1980/81, p. 46.
133
Arnulf Rainer
Übermalung, 1959.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200 Sold:
€ 53,340 / $ 57,607 (incl. surcharge)
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