Sale: 396 / Post War/ Contemporary Art, Oct. 20. 2012 in Munich Lot 833

 
Arnulf Rainer - 6 Blätter: Kreuzeformen


833
Arnulf Rainer
6 Blätter: Kreuzeformen, 1999.
Etching in colors
Estimate:
€ 4,500 / $ 4,815
Sold:
€ 6,875 / $ 7,356

(incl. surcharge)
6 Blätter: Kreuzeformen. 1999.
Etching in colors with silber.
Not recorded by Breicha any longer. Signed and numbered . Each copy from an edition of 35. Om wove paper by Zerkall (with watermark). Ca. 19 x 12,7 cm (7,4 x 5 in). Sheet: 53,3 x 37,5 cm (21,1 x 14,8 in).
Printed by Kurt Zein, Vienna (each with blindstamp). Published by Maximilian Verlag, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich. Contains "Kreuz silber/nachtblau", "Breitkreuz silber/weinrot", "Mantelkreuz mit Füllsilber", "Kreuz silber/blutrot", "Mantelkreuz silber/blutrot", "Kreuz silber/kirschrot".

"The cross has become my basic figure. I just can't come up with anything else that gets my eagerness to work so much going; that's why I keep using it over and over .." (Transl. quote after Arnulf Rainer in: Friedhelm Mennekes - Das Kreuz als Realpräsenz in: Johannes Röhrig, Arnulf Rainer - Kreuz-Weisen, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, Cologne 1992, p. 12). [EH/CB].




833
Arnulf Rainer
6 Blätter: Kreuzeformen, 1999.
Etching in colors
Estimate:
€ 4,500 / $ 4,815
Sold:
€ 6,875 / $ 7,356

(incl. surcharge)