Anselm Reyle
1970
Ohne Titel. 2003.
Mixed media. Acrylic and foil on canvas. Mounted in a display case.
Signed and dated on the back cover of the display case. 71 x 60 x 10.5 cm (27.9 x 23.6 x 4.1 in). [EH].

• Color Field Painting reinvented: an unusual material brimming with visual diversity.
• Foil painting from the “Classic Foils” series.
• Materials are recontextualized and acquire a distinctive physicality through optical transformations.
• Anselm Reyle is one of the major rising stars of contemporary art; he is represented by, among others, the renowned König Galerie.

PROVENANCE: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
Private collection, Southern Germany. (2011, Christie’s from the above)
Swiss collection (2011, Ketterer Kunst).

LITERATURE: Christie’s New York Sale 2465 on September 21, 2011, Lot 138 (with illustration)
Ketterer Kunst, A 387 Postwar / Contemporary Art, December 10, 2011, Lot 327 (with illustration).
“Time simply passes; today we have different means and different materials at our disposal, which is why I believe that abstraction can be updated. But I don’t believe it needs to be fundamentally reformed.”
Anselm Reyle, quoted from: (https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/anselm-reyle-2/ accessed on September 3, 2026, at 12:38 p.m.)

For information concerning the condition, please view the high resolution image / backside image.