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Saturday, 11 July 2026 at 11:00 am - After sale

Lot 402 Dan Flavin. 3 Arbeiten. Untitled …

3 Arbeiten. Untitled (Triptych). Aus: Sequences. 1996-98. Je Aquatinta auf handgeschöpftem Twinrocker Velin. Je 50 x 40 cm. Je verso signiert, datiert und nummeriert sowie mit dem Stempel des Herausgebers. - Verso je mit zarten Farbspuren. Insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. Prachtvolle, ausgesprochen farbsatte und intensiv leuchtende Drucke der monochromen, nahezu formatfüllenden Kompositionen mit prägnant ausgeformten Schöpfrändern, je links mit dem Schöpfrand in weiß.

Minimalismus

Amerikanische Moderne – Je eines von 60 Exemplaren. - Hg. Edition Schellmann, München/New York. - Die drei vorliegenden Aquatinten gehören zu den seltenen druckgraphischen Arbeiten Dan Flavins, der vor allem für seine Installationen mit industriellen Leuchtstoffröhren bekannt ist. Seit 1961 fast ausschließlich mit farbigem Kunstlicht arbeitend, das er zu atmosphärischen Rauminstallationen zusammenfügte, überträgt Flavin hier sein Grundprinzip der Farb- und Lichtwirkung in das graphische Medium: Grün, Blau und Rosa erscheinen als nahezu formatfüllende monochrome Farbfelder von außergewöhnlicher Leuchtkraft, die als koloristisches Destillat seiner Installationen gelesen werden können. Dabei behaupten sich die Blätter mühelos als eigenständige Kompositionen und formulieren prägnant, wie konsequent Flavin die Frage nach der Übersetzbarkeit von Licht und Farbe zwischen den Medien verfolgte.

American Modernism – Minimalism. - 3 works. - Each aquatint on handmade Twinrocker vellum. Each signed, dated and numbered and with the publisher's stamp on the reverse. - Each with faint traces of ink on the reverse. Overall in very good and clean condition. Magnificent, exceptionally rich in colour and intensely luminous prints of the monochrome, almost full-format compositions with strikingly defined paper edges, each with the white paper edge on the left. - One of 60 copies. - Published by Edition Schellmann, Munich/New York. - These three aquatints are among the rare prints by Dan Flavin, who is best known for his installations using industrial fluorescent tubes. Having worked almost exclusively with coloured artificial light since 1961, which he combined to create atmospheric spatial installations, Flavin here transfers his fundamental principle of colour and light effects to the medium of printmaking: green, blue and pink appear as monochrome colour fields of extraordinary luminosity that almost fill the entire format, and which can be read as a colouristic distillation of his installations. The prints stand effortlessly on their own as independent compositions and succinctly demonstrate how consistently Flavin pursued the question of the translatability of light and colour across media.

Result: 2000 €

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