Lot 124000228 
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124000228
Rupprecht Geiger
E 219, um 1955.
Tempera on canvas
Stima: € 50,000 / $ 53,500
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E 219. um 1955.
Tempera on canvas.
Dated and titled "219/54 1954" on the reverse, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and "R Geiger". 86.5 x 91 cm (34 x 35.8 in).
[KT].
• Geiger's formally reduced paintings from the 1950s are among the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market.
• Gently modulated composition that is all the more expressive for its reduction.
• Alongside Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Barnett Newman, Geiger joins the ranks of the luminaries of Color Field painting.
• Geiger showed his famous color modulations in several documenta exhibitions between 1959 and 1977.
• Rupprecht Geiger's paintings can be found in important collections like the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Müller, Cologne ( with the label on the reverse).
Dobermann Collection, Münster.
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen.
Private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 2010).
EXHIBITION: Rupprecht Geiger, Galerie Samlaren, Stockholm, 1956.
Rupprecht Geiger. Gemälde. Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal, October 17 - November 21, 1965, cat. no. 12.
PINC kommt! Rupprecht Geiger. Schauwerk Sindelfingen, November 19, 2017 - September 16, 2018, p. 76 (illu.).
Rot X Stahl, Rupprecht Geiger and Alf Lechner, Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt, February 20 - June 14, 2020.
LITERATURE: Rupprecht Geiger Gesellschaft, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (ed.), edited by Pia Dornacher and Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Catalogue raisonné 1942-2002. Gemälde und Objekte, architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, no. 163 (ill.).
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Auction house Lempertz, Cologne, auction no. 971, December 3, 2010, lot 39 (illu.).
"Color, like light, deserves to be classified as an element - fire, water, air, color, light and earth."
Rupprecht Geiger, quoted from: Jürgen Morschel, Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1988/92, p. 2.
Tempera on canvas.
Dated and titled "219/54 1954" on the reverse, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and "R Geiger". 86.5 x 91 cm (34 x 35.8 in).
[KT].
• Geiger's formally reduced paintings from the 1950s are among the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market.
• Gently modulated composition that is all the more expressive for its reduction.
• Alongside Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Barnett Newman, Geiger joins the ranks of the luminaries of Color Field painting.
• Geiger showed his famous color modulations in several documenta exhibitions between 1959 and 1977.
• Rupprecht Geiger's paintings can be found in important collections like the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Müller, Cologne ( with the label on the reverse).
Dobermann Collection, Münster.
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen.
Private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 2010).
EXHIBITION: Rupprecht Geiger, Galerie Samlaren, Stockholm, 1956.
Rupprecht Geiger. Gemälde. Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal, October 17 - November 21, 1965, cat. no. 12.
PINC kommt! Rupprecht Geiger. Schauwerk Sindelfingen, November 19, 2017 - September 16, 2018, p. 76 (illu.).
Rot X Stahl, Rupprecht Geiger and Alf Lechner, Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt, February 20 - June 14, 2020.
LITERATURE: Rupprecht Geiger Gesellschaft, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (ed.), edited by Pia Dornacher and Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Catalogue raisonné 1942-2002. Gemälde und Objekte, architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, no. 163 (ill.).
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Auction house Lempertz, Cologne, auction no. 971, December 3, 2010, lot 39 (illu.).
"Color, like light, deserves to be classified as an element - fire, water, air, color, light and earth."
Rupprecht Geiger, quoted from: Jürgen Morschel, Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1988/92, p. 2.
124000228
Rupprecht Geiger
E 219, um 1955.
Tempera on canvas
Stima: € 50,000 / $ 53,500
Le informationi sulla commissione, le tasse e il diritto di seguito saranno disponibili quattro settimane prima dell´asta.
