Otto Piene - Hellgelb Hitze - image-1

Lot 531 D

Otto Piene - Hellgelb Hitze

Auction 1042 - overview Cologne
29.11.2014, 12:00 - Contemporary Art
Estimate: 30.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 45.880 € (incl. premium)

Otto Piene

Hellgelb Hitze
2006

Acrylic and traces of fire on canvas. 60 x 50 cm. The canvas verso signed, dated and titled '"hellgelb/Hitze"/ OPiene (ligated) 2006' and with directional arrow. The canvas overlap signed and dated 'OPiene' (ligated) '2006'. Information on discarded work on the canvas and strecther frame. - Traces of studio.

'What is a painting?
A painting is a field of forces, the arena where its author's impulses all come together, there to be transformed, reformed into a movement of color. Energies which the painter has received out of the fullness of the universe are now directed into channels opened to the spitit of the onlooker.' (Otto Piene, in: Wulf Herzogenrath and Annette Piene (ed.), Otto Piene, exhib.cat. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Josef-Haubrich-Hof, Cologne 1973, p.41)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist; private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia