Bild E IV (Zeit und Raum). 1953.
Egg tempera on panel.
Signed, dated, titled and inscribed with the dimensions, "1981" and a direction arrow on the reverse. 61.5 x 53.5 cm (24.2 x 21 in) [AW].

• Expressive painting by the great German representative of Color Field Painting.
• This early color field is particularly captivating for its gentle oscillation between yellow, blue and white color values.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Paintings by Rupprecht Geiger can be found in numerous important collections, among them the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Lenbachhaus Munich.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1981).

EXHIBITION: Rupprecht Geiger, Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, June 19 -July 31, 1953.

LITERATURE: Pia Dornacher/Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Catalogue raisonné 1942-2002. Gemälde und Objekte, architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, no. 126 (color illu.).

"Color, like light, is entitled to be classified as an element - fire, water, air, color, light and earth."
Rupprecht Geiger, quoted from: Jürgen Morschel, Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1988/92, p. 2.