Lot 326
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Arnulf Rainer
Schwarz auf Blau auf Weiß, 1957.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000
$ 55,000 - 77,000
Schwarz auf Blau auf Weiß. 1957.
Oil on canvas.
Twice signed and dated as well as titled verso on the stretcher. Signed in a faint hand on the reverse of the canvas. 58 x 42 cm (22.8 x 16.5 in). [AW].
• “Schwarz auf Blau auf Weiß” (Black on Blue on White) is one of the artist's early and most typical overpaintings from the 1950s. In it, monochrome black covers almost the picture's entire surface.
• Arnulf Rainer creates a mysterious internal structure through the materiality of the paint he applies on the canvas layer by layer with gestural brushstrokes.
• Covering the canvas with color is to be understood as a time-based process.
• Arnulf Rainer left the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna after only a few days and became an autodidact.
• In 1959, he participated in the documenta II in Kassel and the Venice Biennale in 1978 and 1980.
We are grateful to the Studio Rainer for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Art dealer Wolfgang Werner, Berlin.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above).
"What motivates Arnulf Rainer to paint over existing pictures is “the special stimulus that the object to be overpainted gives him; the imperfections that demand correction; the challenge of taking something good and making it even better; the complex pleasure of committing a kind of murder by painting over the picture, and the satisfaction of his creative urge in producing a new organic whole. In most cases, the overpainted area can no longer be seen. Still, it lives on as a critical (and by no means arbitrary) component of the final painting, in that it has influenced the process of overpainting with its unique character.”
Hermann Kern, “Übersicht über die künstlerische Entwicklung Arnulf Rainers”, in: Arnulf Rainer, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 1971, p. 3.
Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 16.19 h +/- 20 min.
Oil on canvas.
Twice signed and dated as well as titled verso on the stretcher. Signed in a faint hand on the reverse of the canvas. 58 x 42 cm (22.8 x 16.5 in). [AW].
• “Schwarz auf Blau auf Weiß” (Black on Blue on White) is one of the artist's early and most typical overpaintings from the 1950s. In it, monochrome black covers almost the picture's entire surface.
• Arnulf Rainer creates a mysterious internal structure through the materiality of the paint he applies on the canvas layer by layer with gestural brushstrokes.
• Covering the canvas with color is to be understood as a time-based process.
• Arnulf Rainer left the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna after only a few days and became an autodidact.
• In 1959, he participated in the documenta II in Kassel and the Venice Biennale in 1978 and 1980.
We are grateful to the Studio Rainer for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Art dealer Wolfgang Werner, Berlin.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above).
"What motivates Arnulf Rainer to paint over existing pictures is “the special stimulus that the object to be overpainted gives him; the imperfections that demand correction; the challenge of taking something good and making it even better; the complex pleasure of committing a kind of murder by painting over the picture, and the satisfaction of his creative urge in producing a new organic whole. In most cases, the overpainted area can no longer be seen. Still, it lives on as a critical (and by no means arbitrary) component of the final painting, in that it has influenced the process of overpainting with its unique character.”
Hermann Kern, “Übersicht über die künstlerische Entwicklung Arnulf Rainers”, in: Arnulf Rainer, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 1971, p. 3.
Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 16.19 h +/- 20 min.
326
Arnulf Rainer
Schwarz auf Blau auf Weiß, 1957.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000
$ 55,000 - 77,000
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Arnulf Rainer "Schwarz auf Blau auf Weiß"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.