Übermalung. 1959.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. 38.5 x 24.5 cm (15.1 x 9.6 in). [EH].

• Arnulf Rainer is one of the most important artists of the Austrian post-war avant-garde
• Of extraordinary luminosity.
• Overpainting is still considered the central principle of Rainer's work and a significant contribution to European post-war art.
• Rainer was represented at documenta II in Kassel in the year this work was created.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Austria.

"Rainer paints his own individuality out of the pictures, but he tries to give the pictures their own individuality precisely by doing so: something flat, plump, soft, dense, moving, flowing or calm."
Dieter Honisch, in: ex. cat. Arnulf Rainer, Nationalgalerie Berlin et al, 1980/81, p. 46.