Mar 25, 2021

Christie's

ARNULF RAINER (B. 1929) signed 'Rainer' (lower right); signed with the artist's initials 'A.R' (on the lower corners) oil on two sheets of card laid down on board 28 ¾ x 40 ¼in. (73.1 x 102.1cm.) Executed in 1983

Mar 5, 2021

Sotheby's

Property of a Private New York Collector signed oil on paperboard mounted on board Board: 20 by 28⅝ in. (50.8 by 72.7 cm.) Framed: 21¼ by 30 in. (53.9 by 76.2 cm.) Executed in 1987-88.

Feb 8, 2021

Sotheby's

numéroté 183/300 au dos lithographie 59 x 83,5 cm ; 23 1/4 x 33 in Exécuté en 2006.

Dec 21, 2020

Dorotheum

signed A. Rainer, acrylic on laser print, 42 x 29.7 cm, framed

Dec 21, 2020

Dorotheum

revision with colored pencil of the offset lithography from the portfolio "Wahnhall", No. 19 of 25 revised special copies, total edition 96 numbered copies (see Breicha page 132 and page 141, L 141), signed A. Rainer in red colored pencil and inscribed with hand-colored, cut-out 35 x 52 cm, framed

Dec 21, 2020

Dorotheum

colored pencil, chalk, Indian ink, graphite on print, mounted on cardboard, 29 x 34.6 cm, framed

Dec 11, 2020

Ketterer Kunst

Eikopfbüste. 1959/1962. Oil on board and on panel. Signed, dated and titled in lower right. 73 x 103 cm (28.7 x 40.5 in), including artist frame. • From the first period of the overpaintings in which Rainer declares the extinction of the object as his anti art principle. • Up until today overpainting makes for the key principle in Rainer's creation and is considered his art-historically relevamt contribution to Post War Art. • Rainer's work emanates the free and unconventional spirict of the autodidact who left the academy after just a few days because of artistic controversies. • Since the 1960s part of a Southern German private collection. • Part of the solo show "Arnulf Rainer. Der große Bogen" at Kunsthalle Bern / Lenbachhaus Munich in 1977 and the grand retrospective at Nationalgalerie Berlin / Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and others. • Arnulf Rainer is a founding father of Austrian post-war art, today his overpaintings are in many renowned collections like the Tate Collection, London. PROVENANCE: Galerie van de Loo, Munich. Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from aforementioned in the 1960s). EXHIBITION: Arnulf Rainer. Der große Bogen, Kunsthalle Bern/Lenbachhaus Munich, 1977, with illu. on p. 44 (verso with the label of Kunsthalle Bern). Arnulf Rainer, Nationalgalerie Berlin / Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden / Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn / Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, November 20, 1980 - November 2, 1981, cat. no. 105, with black-and-white illu. on p. 61. "Coating over, covering up, overpainting is what kept Rainer occupied between 1954 and 1965, however, he hasn't stopped to paint over his works up until today. [..] This was Rainer's peculiar contribution to non-representationalism of the 1950s [..]." Otto Breicha, Arnulf Rainer. Überdeckungen, Vienna 1972, p. 5 Called up: December 11, 2020 - ca. 17.17 h +/- 20 min.

Dec 11, 2020

Ketterer Kunst

Schwarze Übermalung auf Braun. 1955/56. Oil on canvas. Verso signed and dated. 180 x 97 cm (70.8 x 38.1 in). [SM]. • Arnulf Rainer is one of the most important Austrian post-war artists. • "Schwarze Übermalung auf Braun" is one of the earliest characteristic overpaintings from the 1950s in which the black monochromy covers nearly the entire image surface. • Through the color's materiality, which is applied to the canvas layer by layer in gestural brushstrokes, Arnulf Rainer creates a mysterious inner structure. • The observer conceives the covering of the canvas with paint as a temporal process. PROVENANCE: Private collection Stuttgart. Private collection Hildegard Freifrau von Münchhausen, Munich. Collection Haniel, Duisburg (since 1984). EXHIBITION: Arnulf Rainer, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, November 20, 1980 - February 1, 1981; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, February 13 - April 26, 1981; Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, May 5 - June 21, 1981; Museum moderner Kunst/ Museum des XX. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, September 11 - November 2, 1981, p. 76, illu. on p.130. Called up: December 11, 2020 - ca. 18.48 h +/- 20 min.

Dec 8, 2020

Sotheby's

signé et titré; signé et numéroté 95/100 sur l'étiquette MAT édition au dos estampe et gouache sur papier 21 X 21 cm ; 8¼x 8¼in. (image) ; 40 x 39,1 ; 15¾x 15⅜in. (frame) Exécutée en 1964, cette œuvre est le numéro 95 d'une édition en 100 exemplaires.

Nov 26, 2020

Dorotheum

monogrammed R, oil, photograph (?) On wood, 80 x 60 cm, in partially painted aluminum frame, 83 x 63 cm