Arnulf Rainer

Arnulf Rainer 1929 - 2025 Schwarzauge. 1965/66. Oil crayon, graphite and oil on cardboard. Signed, dated, and titled in bottom center. Cardboard by Schoeller Parole (with blind stamp). 51 x 72.5 cm (20 x 28.5 in), the full sheet. [EH]. • Arnulf Rainer is one of the most important artists of the Austrian post-war avant-garde. • An early work from the first phase of his overpaintings, through which Arnulf Rainer declared the obliteration of the pictorial subject to be an anti-artistic principle. • Dynamic overpainting in rich layers. • To this day, overpainting is regarded both as the central principle in Rainer’s oeuvre and as an art-historically significant contribution to post-war European art. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany. “Paintings are not life, but a condensation of life.” Arnulf Rainer, quoted from: C. Aigner, J. Gachnang, H. Zambo (eds.), Arnulf Rainer, abgrundtiefe - perspektiefe. Retrospektive 1947–1997, Vienna/Munich 1997, p. 7 Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 16.25 h +/- 20 min.

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