Gotthard Graubner - Untitled - image-1
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Lot 28 D

Gotthard Graubner - Untitled

Auction 1211 - overview Cologne
02.12.2022, 18:00 - Evening Sale - Modern and Contemporary Art
Estimate: 100.000 € - 150.000 €
Result: 176.400 € (incl. premium)

Gotthard Graubner

Untitled
1973/1974

Cushion picture: Oil on perlon on foam on canvas. 131 x 102 x 8 cm. Signed and dated 'Graubner 1973/1974' verso and with direction arrow. - Traces of studio and minor traces of age.

Gotthard Graubner has been developing and perfecting his genre of Farbraumkörper since 1977. In repeated work processes, he saturated the untreated carriers of canvas, fibrefill and textile covers with paint that seeped into the cushion-like substance. Paint and carrier form a unit. Highly individual colour imprints thus develop virtually autonomously in multiple nuances – what appears monochrome at first, reveals an abundance of shades of colour upon closer inspection.
Caroline Sommer writes the following on the background of the creation of his works, ‘For him, his images are not abstract in the sense of being non-objective. Each image is rather the projection of a real experience into the medium of painting’, explains Graubner. ‘This can be, for example, nature in its thousandfold processes or a feeling that the painter expresses by means of colour. […] The artist relies on experience rather than on the understanding of a process. In constant reflection of this, his painting is created.’ (Gotthard Graubner, Farblicht, exhib.cat. Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover 2003, p.29).
The early colour-space object on offer here shimmers in fine shades of grey. Toward the edges, floating, seemingly disembodied sections merge into areas where the heavy, colour-saturated materiality of the object becomes visible.
The work originates from the collection of Galerie Defet, which acted as a major promoter of contemporary art in Nuremberg for many decades.

Provenance

Galerie Defet, Nuremberg (adhesive label verso); private collection, Hesse