Details
Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929)
Neue Hand- und Fingermalerei
signed with the artist's initials 'AR.' (lower right)
oil on cardboard laid on wood
73.5 x 103cm.
Executed in 1998
Provenance
Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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‘The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence’
– Arnulf Rainer

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