The New York Painter. 1983.
Oil on canvas.
Titled in bottom center. Signed, dated and inscribed “N. Y. Painter” on the reverse of the canvas. 254 x 198 cm (100 x 77.9 in).
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• Rainer Fetting staged himself with great confidence and expressiveness as “The New York Painter”.
• Hat and palette, but also the flow and the jittery colors are reminiscent of Van Gogh, a much-cited role model in the artist's work.
• In 2022, the Vincent van GoghHuis in Zundert dedicated a special exhibition to the German painter entitled “Rainer Fetting ziet van Gogh”.
• Part of the same private collection for more than 35 years and offered on the international auction market for the first time.

The authenticity of the present work has been confirmed by the artist. We are grateful for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Galleri Dobloug, Oslo.
Private collection Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1987).

“The artist, who had celebrated great success on the international auction market as a ‘Young Wild One’ from Berlin within just a few years, had moved to the epicenter of the art market and presented himself with great self-confidence, half-naked wearing a cowboy hat and with palette and brush.”
Arie Hartog about a similar self-portrait, quoted from: Hier ist der Maler. Beobachtungen zu Rainer Fetting, in: Fetting, Cologne 2009, pp. 17-19.