Lithograph in colors on wove paper
Germany, 1977
Otto Piene (1928-2014) – German artist and co-founder of the artist group ZERO
Signed and dated lower right in Pencil ‘Piene 77’
Dedicated lower right in pencil ‘für Josef Kovacs’
Inscribed upper left on the stone ‘Sunset like the grasshopper flying. Ezra Pound’
Image dimensions: 38 x 56.3 cm
Very good condition
Otto Piene is one of the great artists of the avant-garde of the 1960s. Light, air and fire are the elements of his art; Lithographs by the artist fetch up to 2,200 euro at international auctions
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This lithograph in shades of red originated in 1977 as a New Year’s card of the Erker Gallery in St. Gallen. The printed inscription at the upper left quotes the last line of Canto XVII, a poem by the American poet Ezra Pound. The sheet is printed on verso with wishes for New Year.

The lithograph in colors is signed and dated lower right in pencil ‘Piene 77’, dedicated lower right in pencil ‘für Josef Kovacs’ and inscribed upper left in the stone ‘Sunset like the grasshopper flying. Ezra Pound‘. The sheet is in very good condition. The full sheet image measures 38 x 56.3 cm (double sheet without centerfold).



Otto Piene (b. 1928)

Otto Piene first studied painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and later in Düsseldorf and Cologne. From 1955 onwards his works were shown in group exhibitions – multiple times at the documenta in Kassel – and a few years later in solo exhibitions. In 1957, Piene, together with Heinz Mack, founded the ZERO group and started publishing the eponymous magazine. In his paintings he dealt with the concepts of light, movement and space, producing so-called smoke and fire paintings as a reference to the elementary energies of nature. Already in 1967, a first retrospective of Piene’s works took place in Dortmund. American and European awards followed. From 1972 onwards he has been a professor of Environmental Art at MIT. Otto Piene now lives and works in Düsseldorf and Massachusetts. His work can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York. In 2014, Piene’s creative legacy is honored with an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin whilst a major travelling exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Gropius-Bau in Berlin and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presents a survey of Zero-Art. (fea)

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