Lot 31: Untitled (House)

Blinky Palermo (B. 1943-1977) Untitled (House) signed and dated 'Palermo 1965' (lower left) watercolour and graphite on paper 5 7/8 x 8¼in (15 x 20.8cm.) Executed in 1965

15 x 20.8cm.

Private Collection, Germany. Andreas Sturies Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf. Private Collection. Haunch of Venison, London.

'Because we were so different, we didn’t compete with each other. I always appreciated the way he could create something that seemed so silent. That was all foreign to me… We could really just speak about painting. The main thing was about the surface of colour or the proportion of colour' (G. Richter talking about Blinky Palemro, D. Elger, Gerhard Richter, A Life in Painting, Chicago 2009, p. 182).