Hermann Nitsch, Schüttbild. 1963.
Red dispersion on thinly primed burlap.
Signed and dated on the stretcher. 105 x 80 cm (41.3 x 31.4 in).
- Early, energetic testimony to Nitsch's legendary action art.
- Nitsch's famous "Schüttbilder" usually have the color of blood: red!
- Only in February of this year, the now deceased artist was signed by the renowned Pace Gallery.
- Nitsch is considered the main representative of Viennese Actionism, and his famous "Schüttbilder" are in important international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate Liverpool and the Albertina in Vienna.
PROVENIENCE:
Fred Jahn Gallery, Munich.
Duerckheim Collection (acquired by the aforementioned, since then in family possession).
"I keep saying: my painting is the visual grammar of my intention on the picture plane."
Hermann Nitsch. Interview with Rudolf Stoert, Kunstforum 1991, p. 272f.
Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 18.32 h +/- 20 min.
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