Lot 36
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Otto Piene
Blue Vortex, 1966/ 1974.
Mixed media. Oil, traces of fire and smoke on c...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600 Sold:
€ 187,500 / $ 202,500 (incl. surcharge)
Blue Vortex. 1966-1974.
Mixed media. Oil, traces of fire and smoke on canvas.
Verso signed, dated and titled. 102 x 76 cm (40.1 x 29.9 in). [SM].
• With his first smoke pictures and drawings, Otto Piene expressed his fascination for the element fire in 1959.
• There is no other oeuvre in which fire plays such an important role as it is the case for Piene, it even gains an iconographic status.
• For Piene, color is used as a matter with which he transforms sensations and ideal values.
• A typical, excellently balanced fire picture from the early ZERO period.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf.
Collection Haniel, Duisburg (acquired from aforementioned in 2008).
Mixed media. Oil, traces of fire and smoke on canvas.
Verso signed, dated and titled. 102 x 76 cm (40.1 x 29.9 in). [SM].
• With his first smoke pictures and drawings, Otto Piene expressed his fascination for the element fire in 1959.
• There is no other oeuvre in which fire plays such an important role as it is the case for Piene, it even gains an iconographic status.
• For Piene, color is used as a matter with which he transforms sensations and ideal values.
• A typical, excellently balanced fire picture from the early ZERO period.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf.
Collection Haniel, Duisburg (acquired from aforementioned in 2008).
36
Otto Piene
Blue Vortex, 1966/ 1974.
Mixed media. Oil, traces of fire and smoke on c...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600 Sold:
€ 187,500 / $ 202,500 (incl. surcharge)
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