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Rainer Fetting
Rückenakt (Ausblick), 1982.
Dispersion on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 90,400 - 135,600
Rückenakt (Ausblick). 1982.
Dispersion on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled "Rückenakt" on the reverse of the canvas. 251 x 202 cm (98.8 x 79.5 in).
• A larger-than-life, erotically charged male nude in the characteristic vivid expressiveness of the “Junge Wilde”.
• The prospect as a place of longing: the vast Alpine landscape starkly contrasts the walled-in city of West Berlin.
• In the year of its creation, Rainer Fetting featured in the critical “Zeitgeist” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and in the 40th Venice Biennale.
• The artist was a leading figure in the revolutionary Berlin art scene and a renovator of figurative painting in the early 1980s.
• His works from the 1980s are among the most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Many of them are in leading museums like the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Pinakothek der Moderne der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, the Portland Art Museum, and Tate Gallery, London.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne (1988).
Monika and Thomas Verhoeven Collection, USA.
Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf (with the gallery label and the stamp on the reverse of the stretcher).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2009).
EXHIBITION: From the collection of Monika and Thomas Verhoeven. From "Junge Wilde" to video, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, Jun. 19-Aug. 15, 1999, p. 22 (Illustrated)
BerlinOttana. Pittura irruente, MARCA / Museo Delle Arti, Catanzaro, Apr. 30-Oct. 9, 2011, p. 121 (Illustrated).
LITERATURE: Rainer Fetting und Jan Hoet, Fetting, Cologne 2009, p. 166, cat. no. 177 (with full-page ill.).
Simone Wiechers, Pelikane am Potsdamer Platz. Das neue Berlin im Werk von Rainer Fetting, in: Rainer Fetting, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2011, p. 115.
Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 19.20 h +/- 20 min.
Dispersion on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled "Rückenakt" on the reverse of the canvas. 251 x 202 cm (98.8 x 79.5 in).
• A larger-than-life, erotically charged male nude in the characteristic vivid expressiveness of the “Junge Wilde”.
• The prospect as a place of longing: the vast Alpine landscape starkly contrasts the walled-in city of West Berlin.
• In the year of its creation, Rainer Fetting featured in the critical “Zeitgeist” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and in the 40th Venice Biennale.
• The artist was a leading figure in the revolutionary Berlin art scene and a renovator of figurative painting in the early 1980s.
• His works from the 1980s are among the most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Many of them are in leading museums like the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Pinakothek der Moderne der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, the Portland Art Museum, and Tate Gallery, London.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne (1988).
Monika and Thomas Verhoeven Collection, USA.
Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf (with the gallery label and the stamp on the reverse of the stretcher).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2009).
EXHIBITION: From the collection of Monika and Thomas Verhoeven. From "Junge Wilde" to video, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, Jun. 19-Aug. 15, 1999, p. 22 (Illustrated)
BerlinOttana. Pittura irruente, MARCA / Museo Delle Arti, Catanzaro, Apr. 30-Oct. 9, 2011, p. 121 (Illustrated).
LITERATURE: Rainer Fetting und Jan Hoet, Fetting, Cologne 2009, p. 166, cat. no. 177 (with full-page ill.).
Simone Wiechers, Pelikane am Potsdamer Platz. Das neue Berlin im Werk von Rainer Fetting, in: Rainer Fetting, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2011, p. 115.
Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 19.20 h +/- 20 min.
"At the time, I was on a short skiing trip to Mount Pilatus with the male model Claus and some other friends.
The idea for the pictures came up on this occasion. Coming from the walled-in, concrete city of West Berlin, the vastness of the Alpine landscape is the strongest possible contrast. How do I translate that into a picture most compellingly? That's how the series of pictures came about. The “view” as a place of longing, so to speak. The male erotic body, which I painted at a time when “gay” was still forbidden and many people were still embarrassed by the subject at exhibition openings, adds to the effect.
And it still felt that way more than a decade later when I presented the painting “Ich find dich geil” (I think you're hot, 1982) from this series to German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the lender and the whole team at the Chancellery ..."
Rainer Fetting on the present work "Rückenakt (Ausblick)", April 2025
The idea for the pictures came up on this occasion. Coming from the walled-in, concrete city of West Berlin, the vastness of the Alpine landscape is the strongest possible contrast. How do I translate that into a picture most compellingly? That's how the series of pictures came about. The “view” as a place of longing, so to speak. The male erotic body, which I painted at a time when “gay” was still forbidden and many people were still embarrassed by the subject at exhibition openings, adds to the effect.
And it still felt that way more than a decade later when I presented the painting “Ich find dich geil” (I think you're hot, 1982) from this series to German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the lender and the whole team at the Chancellery ..."
Rainer Fetting on the present work "Rückenakt (Ausblick)", April 2025
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Rainer Fetting
Rückenakt (Ausblick), 1982.
Dispersion on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 90,400 - 135,600
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Rainer Fetting "Rückenakt (Ausblick)"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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