506/68. 1968.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed on the reverse. 120 x 110 cm (47.2 x 43.3 in). [AW].

• Geiger elevates the circle to a meditative color space.
• The reduction and concentration of color and form reached its peak in the late 1960s.
• Particularly luminous work from this central creative phase.
• Rupprecht Geiger's paintings are in numerous important collections like the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Lenbachhaus in Munich.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Isernhagen (since 1968).
Private collection Southern Germany (gifted from the above in 2011).

LITERATURE: Pia Dornacher/Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Catalogue raisonné 1942-2002. Gemälde und Objekte, architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, no. 481 (color illu.).