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Description: Arnulf Rainer * (born 1929 in Baden near Vienna) "Bleeding Flower", signed A. Rainer, titled on the reverse as well as signed and dated A. Rainer 87, oil and oil crayon on photograph on panel, 80 x 60 cm, in original painted frame, 83 x 63 cm, (K) Provenance: ex Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (with a paper label on the reverse: 1987 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquires one of the large new Crosses. Continues work on the series of the snake and plant overpaintings; Piranesi cycle, retrospective at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts on the occasion of the Europalia in Brussels)