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Arnulf Rainer
Rote Zudeckung, 1957.
Mixed media on canvas laminated on paper and fr...
Estimation:
€ 40,000 / $ 46,000
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€ 64,500 / $ 74,175

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229
Arnulf Rainer
Rote Zudeckung, 1957.
Mixed media on canvas laminated on paper and fr...
Estimation:
€ 40,000 / $ 46,000
Résultat:
€ 64,500 / $ 74,175

( frais d'adjudication compris)

Arnulf Rainer
1929 - 2025

Rote Zudeckung. 1957.
Mixed media on canvas laminated on paper and framed by the artist.
Signed, dated, titled, and labeled “(mounted - framed 67)” on the reverse. Also labeled “VI” on the reverse, presumably by a hand other than of the artist. 38.5 x 25.2 cm (15.1 x 9.9 in). [EH].


Arnulf Rainer is the main figure and founder of Austrian Informalism.
• One of his early, magnificent overpaintings from the 1950s.
• Materiality of color paired with vibrant, gestural brushstrokes.
• He participated in documenta II in Kassel in 1959 and in the Venice Biennale in 1978 and 1980
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PROVENANCE: Private collection.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1989).

Dieter Honisch, in: exhibition cat. Arnulf Rainer, Nationalgalerie Berlin et al, 1980/81, p. 46.