Rainer Fetting

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich
Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, Part II, 10 November 1989, Lot 477
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, New Painting from Berlin: A Selection from the Martin Sanders Collection, 1992, illustrated on the exhibition leporello
Schleswig-Holstein, Landesmuseum Schleswig-Holstein, Neue Wilde aus Berlin: Die Sammlung Martin Sanders, 1994, p. 24, no. 12, illustrated in colour
St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, German Neo-Expressionism: Rainer Fetting and his Fellows from the Martin Sanders Collection, 1995, p. 35, no. 16, illustrated
Turku, Wäinö Aaltosen Museo, Saksalaista uusekspressionismia Martin Sanders in kokoelmasta, 1996
Tonder, Sonderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tysk Neo-expressionism: Martin Sanders Samling Vaerker af bl.a. Rainer Fetting, Luciano Castelli, Markus Lüpertz, Salome, Elvira Bach og Helmut Middendorf, 1999
Koblenz, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus; Bayreuth, Kunstmuseum, Neue Wilde aus der Sammlung Martin Sanders, 2002-03

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the green of the signature tends more towards bright pea green. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is some intermittent wear to the four extreme edges, with associated scattered rub marks and some isolated paint losses in a few places. There is a vertical spot of paint loss beneath the figure's left thigh, as well as a minute spot of paint loss beneath his left hand and one to the figure's left arm. There are two tiny white media accretions to the centre and lower centre of the lower right quadrant as well as two further tiny white media accretions to the right side of the figure's back, which are probably inherent to the artist's working process. Several rub marks can be noticed upon close inspection to the left extreme edge, the majority of which are in the centre part, as well as a further short vertical rub mark to the top left part of the lower left quadrant. There are further intermittent rub marks to the upper part of the right extreme edge, and another horizontal rub mark to the left of the signature. There is a vertical white line of pigment to the top centre of the composition. No restoration is apparent under UV light.
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A percentage of the proceeds of the sale will be a donation to the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art