Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Otto Piene 1928–2014

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1974
oil and soot on printed paperboard 44 h × 28 w in (112 × 71 cm)
estimate: $15,000–20,000
result: $18,900
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Signed, titled and dated to lower edge ‘O Piene '74 Up’.
provenance: The Artist | Private Collection | Christie's, New York, First Open | Online, 17 July 2019, Lot 165 | Private Collection

This work will ship from 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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