Sale: 22 / Online Sale, Feb. 15. 2024 Lot 123001039
123001039
Arnulf Rainer
Haute Coiffure, 1963.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,500 Sold:
€ 11,938 / $ 12,534 (incl. surcharge)
Haute Coiffure. 1963.
The portfolio comprising 10 Drypoints and the title wrapper with table of content and imprint, loose in orig. boards portfolio with title signature.
Breicha R 25-34 edition A (of C). Signed and numbered in imprint. Each print signed and numbered, some signed and monogrammed in the plate. From a complete edition of 98 copies. On laid paper. Up to 31.8 x 43.8 cm (12.5 x 17.2 in). Sheet: ca. 54 x 38 cm (21,2 x 14,9 in).
Lacking the over-painted etching of edition A. Printed on the handpress by Rudolf Lauterbach, Vienna. Published by Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, autumn 1963. [AR].
• Over-painting is a key principle in Arnulf Rainer's creation.
• Ths sheets of the portfolio are titled "Rübezahl", "Die schwarze Schwimmerin" or "Liebesgrab" and hint at the figurative motifs underneath the black overpainting.
• His works are an art-historically relevant contribution to European post-war art.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Holtmann, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
"You'd be surprised to see what's hiding under black clouds: treasures, banalities, the comely and the homely. If we didn't know it from the title, only few would guess that Rainer is a figurative painter."
Arnulf Rainer under the pseudonym Jaroslav Bukow, quoted after: Otto Braiche, Arnulf Rainer, Vienna 1972, p. 14.
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The portfolio comprising 10 Drypoints and the title wrapper with table of content and imprint, loose in orig. boards portfolio with title signature.
Breicha R 25-34 edition A (of C). Signed and numbered in imprint. Each print signed and numbered, some signed and monogrammed in the plate. From a complete edition of 98 copies. On laid paper. Up to 31.8 x 43.8 cm (12.5 x 17.2 in). Sheet: ca. 54 x 38 cm (21,2 x 14,9 in).
Lacking the over-painted etching of edition A. Printed on the handpress by Rudolf Lauterbach, Vienna. Published by Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, autumn 1963. [AR].
• Over-painting is a key principle in Arnulf Rainer's creation.
• Ths sheets of the portfolio are titled "Rübezahl", "Die schwarze Schwimmerin" or "Liebesgrab" and hint at the figurative motifs underneath the black overpainting.
• His works are an art-historically relevant contribution to European post-war art.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Holtmann, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
"You'd be surprised to see what's hiding under black clouds: treasures, banalities, the comely and the homely. If we didn't know it from the title, only few would guess that Rainer is a figurative painter."
Arnulf Rainer under the pseudonym Jaroslav Bukow, quoted after: Otto Braiche, Arnulf Rainer, Vienna 1972, p. 14.
To view artwork condition please click on the high-definition images and use the zoom function.
123001039
Arnulf Rainer
Haute Coiffure, 1963.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,500 Sold:
€ 11,938 / $ 12,534 (incl. surcharge)