Sale: 479 / Classics of the 20th Century I, Dec. 08. 2018 in Munich Lot 888

 

888
Rupprecht Geiger
351/60, 1960.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 162,500 / $ 175,500

(incl. surcharge)
351/60. 1960.
Oil on canvas.
Dornacher/Geiger 315. Verso signed and dated, as well as titled on the stretcher. 95 x 91 cm (37.4 x 35.8 in).
In original artist frame.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

""The Blue Planet" Blue becomes the motif. I can realize it. I flash back to the landscape sensation I had in Greece. The blue color values I had found there, the light that I took with me in order to include both into my ever denser ideas."
Rupprecht Geiger, 1961, quote from: Dornacher/Geiger, p. 14, illu.12.




888
Rupprecht Geiger
351/60, 1960.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 162,500 / $ 175,500

(incl. surcharge)