PIENE, OTTO
1928 Laasphe/Westphalia - 2014 Berlin
Title: Platinum and Cloud and City.
Date: 2006.
Technique: Platinum and glaze on clay.
Measurement: 66 x 47 x 3cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower right: OP. Additionally inscribed in the centre of adheisve tape verso with the catalogue raisonné number 1.
We are grateful to Mr Dr. Edgar Quadt, Heilbronn, for the helpful pieces of information. The work is registered under cat. rais. no. 1 in the catalogue raisonné.
Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (directly from the artist)
- Private collection North Rhine Westphalia
- First work from the group of grid, fire and pit ceramics of museum quality
- Wonderful realisation of the well-known and popular grid motif that Piene used as early as 1957
- The pictorial space vibrates through the use of reflective materials.