Neo Rauch (b. 1960)

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Details

Neo Rauch (b. 1960)
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signed and dated 'Rauch 99' (lower left)
oil on paper
82¾ x 59 in. (210 x 149.8 cm.)
Painted in 1999.

Provenance

Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
White Cube, London
Anon sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 2006, lot 1

Exhibited

Leipzig, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst; Munich, Haus der Kunst and Zurich, Kunsthalle, Neo Rauch: Randgebiet, December 2000-August 2001, p. 95 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

"When one is with Neo Rauch, everything forces one to pay attention to details. For one speculates that only exactness can provide a key to the painter's giant pictures. They seem like Spanish taverns where one is served what one brings oneself. One has to enter into the artist's own syntax, recognise the themes and motifs that leap from one canvas to the other." (W. Spies, "In the Prohibited Zone of Happiness" in Neo Rauch: Para, pp.7)

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Lot Essay

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