Anselm Reyle - Contemporary Evening Sale London Sunday, July 5, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin

  • Catalogue Essay

    In 1964 Clement Greenberg despairingly described how painterly abstraction had become, in the hands of a watered-down second generation, ‘by and large an assortment of ready-made effects’ where ‘the look of the accidental had become an academic, conventional look’. Forty years later these ready-made effects are willingly taken onboard by a new generation, ready to dissociate them from their original contexts without the need for the self-conscious irony of their Postmodern predecessors. The drip, the pour, the stain, the gestural brushstroke all have a role to play in Reyle’s painting. Reyle's paintings are dependent on a deliberate slowing down and increase in conscious control. Gestural marks in contrasting colours sit fresh on pristine white backgrounds; any wayward splashes or paint-can imprints are applied later as finishing touches to balance the composition. For all their rock‘n’roll demeanour, their harshly jarring colours, splinters of mirror and nonchalant smears and splatters, Reyle’s paintings are underpinned by a cool compositional meditation. (K.Bell, ‘Anselm Reyle’, Frieze Magazine, Issue 86, October 2004)

31

Untitled

2005
Oil, PVC foil and acrylic glass on canvas.
227 x 332 cm. (89 3/8 x 130 3/4 in).
Signed and dated 'A.Reyle 2005' on the overlap.

Estimate
£70,000 - 90,000 ≠♠†

Sold for £85,250

Contemporary Evening Sale

29 June 2009, 7pm
London