Maria Lassnig (b. 1919)
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Maria Lassnig (b. 1919)

Geschaeftspartner (Business Partners)

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Maria Lassnig (b. 1919)
Geschaeftspartner (Business Partners)
signed, titled, and dated 'Geschaeftspartner M. Lassnig 1998' (lower right)
graphite and watercolour paper
17 x 23½in. (43.8 x 59.7cm.)
Painted in 1998
来源
Friedrich Petzel, Gallery.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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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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This lot should be illustrated with a star in the catalogue. VAT is payable on this lot at 5.001 on the hammer price and at 20 on the buyer's premium.

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"There are too few words and that is why I draw."

Many of the characters in Lassnig's pictures seem a mere breath away from hysteria, although some look simply bewildered, mute, lumpen, as if experiencing the kind of feeling that can only manifest itself wordlessly. There are myriad tussles here between antagonists, lovers, subjects, the self; occasionally the protagonists stare directly out of the picture, but often they are too absorbed in their own worlds that they seem oblivious to their exposure. Sometimes, the only access to their state of mind is through the gesture of their limbs, their skin, the look in their eyes or the curve of their lips. They float, all of them, in colour; details beyond the figure are banished. "Background," Lassnig has commented, "creates mood and atmosphere, and I don't need that" (Maria Lassnig quoted in H. Firedel and M. Mühling, Maria Lassnig, Munich 2009.)