Untitled

Details

Helmut Dorner (B. 1952)
Untitled
signed 'H. Dorner' (on the reverse of the backing board)
acrylic, watercolour and graphite on paper
10 ¼ x 8 7/8in. (26 x 22.5cm.)
Executed in 1983

Provenance

Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992.

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Lot Essay

Helmut Dorner, who studied under Gerhard Richter, emerged as a major German abstract painter in the 1980s. In Untitled he explores the subjectivity of the sitter through a staccato arrangement of multicoloured lines.

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