Auction House

Auction: Contemporary Art

06. April 2022, 3:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0591

Arnulf Rainer*

(Baden 1929)

„"Wasserwelt I (Die Gestürtzten stehen auf)"“
1950/51
lithograph; unframed
47.2 x 72.6 cm (sheet size); 42 x 65 cm (depiction)
Included in the portfolio "Cave Canem" published for the exhibition by the "Hundsgruppe" (Vienna, 1951).
50 signed pieces (handprints) on Ingres laid paper.
20 copies on offset paper for the artist, many of them titled by hand as posters for the Rainer exhibition at Galerie Kleinmayr (Klagenfurt, 1952).
Print: Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna.
This copy is neither signed nor dated.

Provenance

private property, Austria

Literature

cf. Otto Breicha, Arnulf Rainer. Überdeckungen, mit einem Werkkatalog sämtlicher Radierungen, Lithographien und Siebdrucke 1950-1971. Vienna 1972, p. 12-13;
cf. exhibition catalogue, Phantasten Museum Wien. Katalog der Eröffnungs-Ausstellung, Vienna 2011, p. 87

Estimate: € 500 - 1.000
Result: € 896 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.