Rudolf Stingel - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, June 27, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
    Christie’s, New York, ‘Post – War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session’, 10 May 2006, Lot 535
    Aquired from the above sale by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Rudolf Stingel

    Italian • 1956

    Rudolf Stingel came to prominence in the late 1980s for his insistence on the conceptual act of painting in a context in which it had been famously declared dead. Despite the prevailing minimalist and conceptual narrative of the time, the Italian-born artist sought to confront the fundamental aspirations and failures of Modernist painting through the very medium of painting itself. While his works do not always conform to the traditional definitions of painting, their attention to surface, space, color and image provide new and expanded ways of thinking about the process and "idea" of painting. Central to his multifarious and prolific oeuvre is an examination of the passage of time and the probing of the fundamental questions of authenticity, meaning, hierarchy, authorship and context by dislocating painting both internally and in time and space. Stingel is best known for his wall-to-wall installations, constructed of fabric or malleable Celotex sheets, as well as his seemingly more traditional oil-on-canvas paintings.

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Untitled

1990
oil and enamel on linen
167.7 x 111.7 cm. (66 x 44 in.)

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 ‡♠

Sold for £96,100

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George O’Dell
Head of Day Sale
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London 28 June 2013 2pm