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Gotthard Graubner
Ohne Titel, 1973.
Thinned Oil paint on cellulose, upper corners o...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,000 Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,250 (incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1973.
Thinned Oil paint on cellulose, upper corners originally sewn on backing board.
Signed, dated and dedicated "Für R. G. Dienst" in bottom center. 174 x 125.5 cm (68.5 x 49.4 in), size of sheet. [JS].
• Rare early paper work in a monumental format.
• Graubner materializes and delimits the color by soaking an absorbent image carrier with thinned paint.
• Soft color tone, which appears veiled through the image carrier's opaque materiality, just as in Graubner's early nylon-covered cushion pictures.
• Formerly part of the collection of the artist and art critic Rolf-Gunter Dienst.
PROVENANCE: Formerly in the collection of Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Berlin.
Company collection North Rhine-Westphalia (until 2019).
"The color unfolds as a color organism; I observe its independent existence, I respect its autonomy. This way the two-dimensional expansion could condense into a body, and the body could dissolve into a condensation in space as fog. The foggy space, probably the most total expression of my painting, appeals to all senses [..]."
Gotthard Graubner, in: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, vol. 16, Munich 1991, p. 15.
Thinned Oil paint on cellulose, upper corners originally sewn on backing board.
Signed, dated and dedicated "Für R. G. Dienst" in bottom center. 174 x 125.5 cm (68.5 x 49.4 in), size of sheet. [JS].
• Rare early paper work in a monumental format.
• Graubner materializes and delimits the color by soaking an absorbent image carrier with thinned paint.
• Soft color tone, which appears veiled through the image carrier's opaque materiality, just as in Graubner's early nylon-covered cushion pictures.
• Formerly part of the collection of the artist and art critic Rolf-Gunter Dienst.
PROVENANCE: Formerly in the collection of Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Berlin.
Company collection North Rhine-Westphalia (until 2019).
"The color unfolds as a color organism; I observe its independent existence, I respect its autonomy. This way the two-dimensional expansion could condense into a body, and the body could dissolve into a condensation in space as fog. The foggy space, probably the most total expression of my painting, appeals to all senses [..]."
Gotthard Graubner, in: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, vol. 16, Munich 1991, p. 15.
159
Gotthard Graubner
Ohne Titel, 1973.
Thinned Oil paint on cellulose, upper corners o...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,000 Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,250 (incl. surcharge)