Rudolf Stingel - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, Europe
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rudolf Stingel, March 23–July 1, 2001, p. 48 (illustrated)

  • 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

signed and dated "Stingel 94" on the reverse
oil and enamel on canvas
68 x 53 in. (172.7 x 134.6 cm)
Painted in 1994.

Estimate
$250,000 - 350,000 

Sold for $254,000

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Patrizia Koenig 
Specialist, Head of Sale, Afternoon Session
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 15 November 2023