- Artist
- Arnulf Rainer born 1929
- Original title
- Eine Nasenkorrektur (Face Farce)
- Medium
- Oil pastel on photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 608 × 507 mm
frame: 823 × 731 × 22 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1982
- Reference
- T03391
Catalogue entry
Arnulf Rainer born 1929
T03391 A Nose Adjustment (Face Farce) 1971
Oil pastel on black and white photograph 608 x 507 (24 x 20)
Inscribed ‘A.R. 71 eine nasen korrektur' b.1.
Purchased from Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
Prov:
Purchased from the artist by Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf 1982
Exh: Arnulf Rainer, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Nov.1980-Feb.1981, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Feb.-April 1981, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, May-June 1981, Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna, Sept.-Nov.1981 (277, repr.); Arnulf Rainer, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, April-May 1980, Whitechapel Art Gallery, June-July 1980 (57, repr.)
Lit: Arnulf Rainer, ‘Face Farces: Grimaces, Facial Forms, Over-Drawings, Painted Photographs', in A. Rainer Face Farces, exh. cat., Galerie Ariadne, Vienna - Cologne 1971; Arnuf Rainer: Facefarces. Bodyposes 1968-1975, exh. cat., Galerie Stadler, Paris 1975; Arnulf Rainer, Tägliches Kleinzeug, Stuttgart 1976; Wolfgang Hartmann, '"Face Farces" von Arnulf Rainer: Zu einem Aspekt künstlerischer Selbstdarstellung' in Arnulf Rainer: ‘Der grosse Bogen', exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bern 1977, pp. 17-28 and in Arnulf Rainer; Retrospektive 1950-1976, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 1977; ‘Mit dem Rücken zur Wand' and ‘Langsam erschliessen sich die Klassifizierung; Ein Selbstinterview' in Otto Breicha (ed.), Arnulf Rainer Hirndrang; Selbstkommentare und andere Texte zu Werk und Person, Salzburg 1980, pp. 105-12
See entry on T03905.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.551
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