Arnulf Rainer

Untitled (Body Language)

c.1973

Not on display

Artist: Arnulf Rainer born 1929
Original title: Ohne Titel (Body Language)
Medium: Oil pastel and photograph on paper
Dimensions: Support: 595 x 501 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1982
Reference: T03388

Catalogue entry

Arnulf Rainer born 1929

T03388 Untitled (Body Language) 1971-2

Oil pastel on black and white photograph 595 x 501 (23 7/8 x 19 3/4)
Inscribed 'A Rainer [arrow pointing upwards] Gib als [...] b.r.
Purchased from Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
Prov: Purchased from the artist by Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf 1982
Lit: Arnulf Rainer, 'Ein Klumpen Keime' in Otto Breicha (ed.), Arnulf Rainer Hirndrang: Selbstkommentare und andere Texte zu Werk und Person, Salzburg 1980, p.101; Arnulf Rainer. Self-Portraits, exh.cat., Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton 1986; Arnulf Rainer, 'Body Language - Nature, Art, Nature' in Arnulf Rainer at the Abbazia di San Gregorio, exh.cat., Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice, 1986, [p.9]

[See entry for T03389.]

Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.549