- Artist
- Arnulf Rainer born 1929
- Original title
- Ohne Titel (Totenmaske)
- Medium
- Oil pastel and photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 594 × 425 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1982
- Reference
- T03385
Catalogue entry
Arnulf Rainer born 1929
T03385 Untitled (Death Mask) 1978
Oil pastel on black and white photograph 594 x 425 (23 3/8 x 16 3/4)
Inscribed 'R. | (Nietzsche) | A Rainer' b.r.
Purchased from Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
Prov:
Purchased from the artist by Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf 1982
Exh:
Arnulf Rainer: Totenmasken 1978, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, Nov. 1978-Jan. 1979, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Jan.-March 1979 (35, repr.)
Lit:
Arnulf Rainer, 'Rein-Pein-Schein-Sein', in Arnulf Rainer: Totenmasken, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, 1978, [pp.4-5]; Arnulf Rainer: Tod - Death, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 1979; Arnulf Rainer: Totenmasken, with texts by Werner Hofmann and Arnulf Rainer, Salzburg and Vienna, 1985 (French translation published as Arnulf Rainer: Métaphores de la Mort, exh.cat., Musée national d'art contemporain, Grenoble 1987)
See entry on T03387.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.547
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