Paul Rotterdam (b.1939)
Lot 262

Paul Rotterdam (b.1939)

Substance 272

Closed12 July 2012

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GBP 13,750

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Paul Rotterdam (b.1939)
Substance 272
signed, titled, inscribed and dated '"Substance 272" Paris, Oct 1976 Paul Rotterdam' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
acrylic on canvas in three parts
overall: 57 1/8 x 55¾ x 3in. (145 x 140.6 x 7.6cm.)
Executed in 1976, framed

With Galerie Erich Storer, Zurich, 1980's.

Specialist note

Paul Rotterdam grew up in the small Austrian town of Wiener Neustadt. He studied at the College of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna before gaining a PHD in Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He now lives in America operating from a studio in North Blenheim, New York. The present work is typical of his oeuvre and was once described by the artist as 'a classic example of Minimalism of the last decades of the 20th century'.