Post War & Contemporary Art 
24 May 2022
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Post War & Contemporary Art 
Otto Piene, Feuerball - Image 1 of 3
Otto Piene, Feuerball - Image 2 of 3
Otto Piene, Feuerball - Image 3 of 3
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Otto Piene 1928–2014

Feuerball

2010
fire gouache on canvas 9½ h × 11⅞ w in (24 × 30 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $10,625
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Signed, titled and dated twice to verso ‘Feuerball O Piene 2010’.
provenance: Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Auktion Zeitgenössische Kunst, 27 November 2014, Lot 349 | Private Collection, California

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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From the beginning we looked upon the term Zero not as an expression of nihilism—or as a dada-like gag, but as a word indicating a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as at the countdown when rockets take off—zero is the incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new.

Otto Piene

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