Lot 237
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Otto Piene (1928-2014)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Otto Piene (1928-2014)

Untitled (Rasterbild)

Details
Otto Piene (1928-2014)
Untitled (Rasterbild)
signed and dated '57/82 Piene' (lower right)
oil on cardboard
28 ¾ x 40in. (73 x 101.6cm.)
Executed in 1982, using a grid from 1957
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

 ‘[The deliberate use of brilliant white creates a current] between the work and the spectator and fill[s] the space between them. This space cannot be quantified because the spatial properties of the work are irrational - the work "as space" is irrational'
(O. Piene, quoted in 'Paths to Paradise' (1961), in O. Piene and H. Mack (eds.), zero, Cambridge 1973, p. 64).

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