Anselm Reyle - Contemporary Art Evening Sale London Friday, October 17, 2008 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Provenance

    Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York

  • Exhibited

    Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Painting in Tongues, 29 January - 17 April, 2006

  • Catalogue Essay

    In Untitled (for Otto Freundlich), Anselm Reyle pays tribute to one of Abstraction’s unsung heroes. Reworking the fractured aesthetic of Freundlich’s paintings, Reyle’s mixed media on canvas conveys a kaleidoscope effect, with different patches of colours symbolizing different emotions from happiness to sadness, elation and mourning. The medley of bright hues, in various hard-edged straight-lined geometric shapes and forms, composed in a collage technique, encapsulates a strong sense of celebration and optimism. Reyle is one of few German contemporary painters to examine lessons of abstraction, as he constantly seeks to explore the notion of German culture and identity, by re-working and re-evaluating the primary surface of a painting, that has become the predominant artistic style throughout his body of work.
     
    “I liked Otto Freundlich's paintings already when I was a child. I think in his time his colourful abstract paintings were quite unusuaI. I work with the principal of his composition. So it's a homage to him.” (Quote from Anselm Reyle).

314

Untitled (For Otto Freundlich)

2006
Oil, pvc foil, acrylic glass and mirror collage on canvas.
298.5 x 140 cm. (117 ½ x 55 1/8 in).
Signed and dated “Anselm Reyle 2005” on the overlap.

Estimate
£80,000 - 100,000 ‡♠

Sold for £73,250

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

18 Oct 2008, 7pm
London