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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 56 | $****** - ****** | Rückenakt (Ausblick) |
paintings
251 x 202 cm (98.82 x 79.53 in)
Dispersion on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled "Rückenakt" on the reverse of the canvas
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne (1988). Monika and Thomas Verhoeven Collection, USA. Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf (with the gallery label and the stamp on the reverse of the stretcher). Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2009).
• In the year of its creation, Rainer Fetting featured in the critical “Zeitgeist” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and in the 40th Venice Biennale. • The artist was a leading figure in the revolutionary Berlin art scene and a renovator of figurative painting in the early 1980s. • His works from the 1980s are among the most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com). • Many of them are in leading museums like the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Pinakothek der Moderne der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, the Portland Art Museum, and Tate Gallery, London . From the collection of Monika and Thomas Verhoeven. From "Junge Wilde" to video, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, Jun. 19-Aug. 15, 1999, p. 22 (Illustrated) BerlinOttana. Pittura irruente, MARCA / Museo Delle Arti, Catanzaro, Apr. 30-Oct. 9, 2011, p. 121 (Illustrated).
Rainer Fetting und Jan Hoet, Fetting, Cologne 2009, p. 166, cat. no. 177 (with full-page ill.). Simone Wiechers, Pelikane am Potsdamer Platz. Das neue Berlin im Werk von Rainer Fetting, in: Rainer Fetting, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2011, p. 115. Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 19.20 h +/- 20 min.
Rainer Fetting
Rückenakt (Ausblick)
1982.
Dispersion on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled "Rückenakt" on the reverse of the canvas. 251 x 202 cm (98.8 x 79.5 in).
• A larger-than-life, erotically charged male nude in the characteristic vivid expressiveness of the “Junge Wilde”.
• The prospect as a place of longing: the vast Alpine landscape starkly contrasts the walled-in city of West Berlin.
