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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Nohal, Reinald
1938 Mainz - 2022 Berlin.
«Das Leben ist eins der Schwersten (life is one of the hardest)».
Felt-tip pen on red cardboard. Verso signed and dated 2015.
H 30, W 40,5 cm (sheet). Unframed.
«Das Leben ist eins der Schwersten (life is one of the hardest)» is taken from Nohals «Quadratures», so-called text images that predominantly process thematic fields between melancholy and cheerfulness, inextricably intertwined with life, in short aphorisms. With his choice of almost completely intensitive typography on colourful cardboard, the former legendary celebrity host and artist with Viennese roots translates the inherent ambivalence of human life courses.
Provenance: Jeschke van Vliet, Berlin, 27.11.2020, lot 231; since then private collection Berlin.

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