RAINER, ARNULF
1929 Baden near Vienna
Title: Untitled.
Date: 1963.
Technique: Wax crayon on canvas.
Measurement: 51 x 66cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: A Rainer. Signed and dated again on the folded canvas verso top centre: A Rainer 63. Also inscribed verso: Entwurf 1 für Druckblatt.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Private collection Hesse
- Private collection Hesse (acquired from the above in the 1980s)
- Arnulf Rainer is one of the most influential representatives of Austrian post-war art
- Wonderful overpainting with typical dense texture, which only shows the underlying work to some extent
- Overpaintings from the early 1960s are among the artist's most sought-after works on the art market
- Privately owned for over 40 years.
