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Otto Piene (1928-2014)
Lot 237 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION

Otto Piene (1928-2014)

Untitled (Rasterbild)

Closed17 October 2015

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GBP 122,500

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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

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

 ‘[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).