Adam's The Oliver Dowling Collection 11th September 2024

49 75 RAIMUND GIRKE (1930-2002) Untitled Watercolour, 45.5 x 38cm Signed and dated (19)’78 verso € 1,000 - 1,500 76 CIARÁN LENNON (B.1947) Study (1988) Acrylic on paper, 34 x 27cm Signed Provenance: with Oliver Dowling Gallery, label verso Exhibited: Dublin, Oliver Dowling Gallery, One-man Exhibition, May 1988, no.12 Born in Heinzendorf, Lower Silesia, (today in Poland) in 1930, Raimund Girke has been at the forefront of Analytical Painting. He partic- ipated at the 1977 Documenta VI in Kassel, Germany, along with Jerry Zeniuk, and is known for his investigations of the colour white. Between 1971 and 1996 he taught painting at the Berlin University of the Arts. In the late 1950’s Girke belonged to the generation of young European artists that overcame the subjectivism of Abstract Ex- pressionism, and searched for new objective reductive expressions. Girke since then left out the traditional composition, and concentrated on putting the colour in order according to a line schedule. On paper, Girke achieves the same versatility and painterly freedom as on canvas. Highly sensitive, even- ly monochromatic watercolours in coloured grey tones, which completely impregnate the sheet, or line-like structures, some of which are also made in pasty oil paint, transfer the painter’s meditative concentration to the viewer. These formative qualities have always characterized his paintings. Girke is represented by Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Antwerp and Hong Kong.