Schüttbild mit Malhemd. 1989.
Mixed media on canvas Oil and dispersion paint on jute.
Signed and dated. 200 x 300 cm (78.7 x 118.1 in).
[AR].
• Large-format, unmistakably powerful Pour Painting with the painter's shirt.
• Religious references are characteristic of Nitsch's work, as is the case here with the use of the liturgical colors blue and green.
• The painting shirt refers to the physical process of artistic production and evokes associations with depictions of the crucifixion.
• Nitsch is regarded the main representative of Viennese Actionism and his oeuvre as a groundbreaking contribution to the art of the 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Steinek, Vienna.
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (acquired from the above in 2006).

EXHIBITION: Fetische des Blicks. Mode und Verführung, Foundation Ahlers Pro Arte, Herford, September 11, 2021 - January 16, 2022, pp. 18/19.