Lot 28 
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Rainer Fetting
Kuss IV, 1981.
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Stima: € 80,000 / $ 92,800
Rainer Fetting
1949
Kuss IV. 1981.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse. 200 x 250 cm (78.7 x 98.4 in). [CH].
• With unbridled passion and creative energy, Rainer Fetting battled against rigid artistic clichés and social taboos.
• Formerly owned by collector Carlo Monzino, New York (portrayed by Andy Warhol in 1980).
• In the year of its creation, Fetting participated in the legendary exhibition “A New Spirit in Painting” at the Royal Academy in London, and the following year, the artist took part in the seminal “Zeitgeist” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
• The paintings from the early 1980s are the artist’s most sought-after works on the international auction market.
• Other works from the 1980s are in international museum collections, including the Tate Gallery, London, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
PROVENANCE: Carlo Monzino Collection (1933-1996), New York (acquired in 1982, typographic inscription on a gallery label on the reverse).
Galerie Deschler, Berlin.
Acquired by the current owner from the above in 2016.
EXHIBITION: "Ich bin ein Berliner", Museum No Hero, Delden/Netherlands, April 15, 2018-February 7, 2019.
Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 17.54 h +/- 20 min.
1949
Kuss IV. 1981.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse. 200 x 250 cm (78.7 x 98.4 in). [CH].
• With unbridled passion and creative energy, Rainer Fetting battled against rigid artistic clichés and social taboos.
• Formerly owned by collector Carlo Monzino, New York (portrayed by Andy Warhol in 1980).
• In the year of its creation, Fetting participated in the legendary exhibition “A New Spirit in Painting” at the Royal Academy in London, and the following year, the artist took part in the seminal “Zeitgeist” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
• The paintings from the early 1980s are the artist’s most sought-after works on the international auction market.
• Other works from the 1980s are in international museum collections, including the Tate Gallery, London, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
PROVENANCE: Carlo Monzino Collection (1933-1996), New York (acquired in 1982, typographic inscription on a gallery label on the reverse).
Galerie Deschler, Berlin.
Acquired by the current owner from the above in 2016.
EXHIBITION: "Ich bin ein Berliner", Museum No Hero, Delden/Netherlands, April 15, 2018-February 7, 2019.
Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 17.54 h +/- 20 min.
“I painted the first three kiss pictures in 1978, and they have a similar style of flowing color as the ”van Gogh and Wall" pictures from the same year, which, however, become more intense and dynamic from picture to picture. The pale yellow-ochre-pink tones also appear in both series. At the time, I was inspired by the American Abstract Expressionists, especially by Willem de Kooning. After my first stay in New York in the fall of 1978, I developed a more intense painting style and a greater use of color, though this varied depending on the subject of the paintings.
In contrast to the first kiss paintings from 1978, which were still rendered in more delicate colors, this kiss from 1981 features a crisper palette, and I notice that a few cubist elements have been incorporated. It seems that I had tried my hand at Picasso. “In addition to eroticism and discoveries in painting,' The Kiss' was certainly always a symbol of circumstances in life that went beyond that.”
Rainer Fetting about the present work, 2025.
Together with fellow artists such as Luciano Castelli, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, and Bernd Zimmer, Rainer Fetting made a name for himself as a member of the artist groups “Neue Wilde” (New Wild Ones), “Junge Wilde” (Young Wild Ones), or the “Moritzboys” in the 1970s. In 1977, they jointly founded the collectively run “Galerie am Moritzplatz” in the isolated, subcultural Berlin art world. In the early 1980s, Fetting's artistic career hit its first peak: in 1980, his works were on display in the exhibition “Heftige Malerei” (Fierce Painting) at the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin; in 1981, he participated in the exhibition “A New Spirit in Painting” at the Royal Academy in London; and in 1982, the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin showed his work in the highly acclaimed exhibition “Zeitgeist.” At that time, the artist was represented by, among others, the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, which also offered our work. In the relatively isolated Berlin art world at the time, the intensity of the works seemed like a liberation from the largely prevailing, established art clichés. To this day, they have lost none of their impetuous, impulsive power and timeless relevance.
The first three “Kuss” (Kiss) paintings were created in 1978, and Rainer Fetting continued the series in the early 1980s.
With his expressive depictions, in which he moves so close to the models' faces, Fetting engages in a role play that is characteristic of him—a play with intense, contrasting colors, “fierce”, energetic and expressive brushstrokes, passion, immediacy, homosexual eroticism, sensuality, and a desire to provoke. At a time when the end of taboos surrounding homosexuality still seemed a long way off, even in legal terms, this very personal painting is not only role-play, but also rebellion, protest, and exclamation mark, as well as an overwhelming testimony, both in terms of color and size, to the unconventional and wild Berlin art scene of the 1980s. [CH]
In contrast to the first kiss paintings from 1978, which were still rendered in more delicate colors, this kiss from 1981 features a crisper palette, and I notice that a few cubist elements have been incorporated. It seems that I had tried my hand at Picasso. “In addition to eroticism and discoveries in painting,' The Kiss' was certainly always a symbol of circumstances in life that went beyond that.”
Rainer Fetting about the present work, 2025.
Together with fellow artists such as Luciano Castelli, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, and Bernd Zimmer, Rainer Fetting made a name for himself as a member of the artist groups “Neue Wilde” (New Wild Ones), “Junge Wilde” (Young Wild Ones), or the “Moritzboys” in the 1970s. In 1977, they jointly founded the collectively run “Galerie am Moritzplatz” in the isolated, subcultural Berlin art world. In the early 1980s, Fetting's artistic career hit its first peak: in 1980, his works were on display in the exhibition “Heftige Malerei” (Fierce Painting) at the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin; in 1981, he participated in the exhibition “A New Spirit in Painting” at the Royal Academy in London; and in 1982, the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin showed his work in the highly acclaimed exhibition “Zeitgeist.” At that time, the artist was represented by, among others, the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, which also offered our work. In the relatively isolated Berlin art world at the time, the intensity of the works seemed like a liberation from the largely prevailing, established art clichés. To this day, they have lost none of their impetuous, impulsive power and timeless relevance.
The first three “Kuss” (Kiss) paintings were created in 1978, and Rainer Fetting continued the series in the early 1980s.
With his expressive depictions, in which he moves so close to the models' faces, Fetting engages in a role play that is characteristic of him—a play with intense, contrasting colors, “fierce”, energetic and expressive brushstrokes, passion, immediacy, homosexual eroticism, sensuality, and a desire to provoke. At a time when the end of taboos surrounding homosexuality still seemed a long way off, even in legal terms, this very personal painting is not only role-play, but also rebellion, protest, and exclamation mark, as well as an overwhelming testimony, both in terms of color and size, to the unconventional and wild Berlin art scene of the 1980s. [CH]
28
Rainer Fetting
Kuss IV, 1981.
Acrilico su tela
Stima: € 80,000 / $ 92,800
Commissione, tassa e diritti di seguito
Quest'oggetto viene offerto con regime fiscale normale o con imposizione sul margine di profitto.
Calcolo commissione particolare sul margine del profitto:
- Prezzo d’aggiudicazione fino a 1.000.000 euro: provvigione del 34%.
- Per la parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione superiore a 1.000.000 euro si calcola una provvigione del 29%, che viene aggiunta a quella relativa alla parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione fino a 1.000.000 euro.
- Per la parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione superiore a 4.000.000 euro si calcola una provvigione del 22%, che viene aggiunta a quella relativa alla parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione fino a 4.000.000 euro.
La provvigione comprende l'IVA, ma questa non viene indicata.
Calcolo regime fiscale normale:
Prezzo di aggiudicazione fino a 1.000.000 €: supplemento del 29%.
Prezzo di aggiudicazione superiore a 1.000.000 €: Parte del prezzo fino a 1.000.000 € supplemento del 29 %, parte del prezzo che supera i 1.000.000 € supplemento del 23%.
Prezzo di aggiudicazione superiore a 4.000.000 €: Parte del prezzo che supera i 4.000.000 € supplemento del 15%.
L'IVA prevista dalla legge è pari al 7 % sulla somma del prezzo di aggiudicazione e del supplemento.
La preghiamo di avvisarci prima della fatturazione nel caso in cui desidera applicare il regime fiscale normale.
Calcolo diritti di seguito:
Per le opere originali di arti figurative e fotografie di artisti viventi o deceduti da meno di 70 anni soggette al diritto di seguito, in tutti i casi suddetti viene riscossa in aggiunta, a liquidazione della compensazione del diritto di seguito dovuto dalla casa d'aste ai sensi del § 26 della legge tedesca sul diritto d'autore (Urheberrechtsgesetz, UrhG), una compensazione del diritto di seguito con le percentuali indicate nel § 26 2° comma UrhG, che attualmente sono le seguenti:
4 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 400,00 euro a 50.000 euro,
un altro 3 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 50.000,01 a 200.000 Euro,
un altro 1 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 200.000,01 a 350.000 Euro,
un altro 0,5 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 350.000,01 a 500.000 euro e
un altro 0,25 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita superiore a 500.000 euro.
L’importo complessivo della compensazione del diritto di seguito derivante da una rivendita è pari al massimo a 12.500 euro.
Calcolo commissione particolare sul margine del profitto:
- Prezzo d’aggiudicazione fino a 1.000.000 euro: provvigione del 34%.
- Per la parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione superiore a 1.000.000 euro si calcola una provvigione del 29%, che viene aggiunta a quella relativa alla parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione fino a 1.000.000 euro.
- Per la parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione superiore a 4.000.000 euro si calcola una provvigione del 22%, che viene aggiunta a quella relativa alla parte del prezzo d’aggiudicazione fino a 4.000.000 euro.
La provvigione comprende l'IVA, ma questa non viene indicata.
Calcolo regime fiscale normale:
Prezzo di aggiudicazione fino a 1.000.000 €: supplemento del 29%.
Prezzo di aggiudicazione superiore a 1.000.000 €: Parte del prezzo fino a 1.000.000 € supplemento del 29 %, parte del prezzo che supera i 1.000.000 € supplemento del 23%.
Prezzo di aggiudicazione superiore a 4.000.000 €: Parte del prezzo che supera i 4.000.000 € supplemento del 15%.
L'IVA prevista dalla legge è pari al 7 % sulla somma del prezzo di aggiudicazione e del supplemento.
La preghiamo di avvisarci prima della fatturazione nel caso in cui desidera applicare il regime fiscale normale.
Calcolo diritti di seguito:
Per le opere originali di arti figurative e fotografie di artisti viventi o deceduti da meno di 70 anni soggette al diritto di seguito, in tutti i casi suddetti viene riscossa in aggiunta, a liquidazione della compensazione del diritto di seguito dovuto dalla casa d'aste ai sensi del § 26 della legge tedesca sul diritto d'autore (Urheberrechtsgesetz, UrhG), una compensazione del diritto di seguito con le percentuali indicate nel § 26 2° comma UrhG, che attualmente sono le seguenti:
4 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 400,00 euro a 50.000 euro,
un altro 3 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 50.000,01 a 200.000 Euro,
un altro 1 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 200.000,01 a 350.000 Euro,
un altro 0,5 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita da 350.000,01 a 500.000 euro e
un altro 0,25 per cento della parte del ricavo della vendita superiore a 500.000 euro.
L’importo complessivo della compensazione del diritto di seguito derivante da una rivendita è pari al massimo a 12.500 euro.