Hardly anyone knows Hermann Nitsch in such a colorful way.

One of his poured paintings is the title lot at the spring auction on April 4th and 5th in the Kinsky in Vienna. The canvas is not only covered with (blood) red acrylic paint, but also yellow, purple and green streaks.

The painting shirt hanging in front of it is reminiscent of a chasuble, the palette is reminiscent of the liturgical cycle of the year.

For the two meter high work from 2011, 50,000 to 100,000 euros were estimated.

There was good news from Nitsch recently when the Pace Gallery announced the representation of the 83-year-old artist.

"Manhattan" is the name of a collage by Franz West measuring 62 by 114 centimeters, in which vertical brushstrokes function as a skyline.

The awkward male trio on it reflects West's special pictorial wit.

The work was created with David Zwirner in 1988, before the artist rose to fame in America (estimate: 80,000 to 160,000 euros).

In addition to two watercolors with dancers, West's “Clubfauteuil” is also being called up.

This canvas-covered steel chair was produced for an exhibition with Wolfgang Tillmans.

It carries two small loudspeakers from which electronic music by Philipp Quehenberger sounds via a CD player (20,000/40,000).

West's longtime companion Rudolf Polanszky, who has been under contract with Gagosian since 2020, shares his offbeat humor.

A “seated picture” in Kinsky from 1983/84, which Polanszky “painted” performatively with the rear end, bears witness to this.

Below the imprints on the bottom of his trousers, four photos show how the artist, who was born in 1951, used color for it.

Polanszky's "Wälz- und Rollebild" also combines works on paper and photos (25,000/50,000 each).

Kiki Kogelnik had the cute extraterrestrial "ET" (15,000/30,000) in mind for her 1996 Murano glass sculpture.

Overall, only a few international names mix among the 313 lots.

A watercolor painting of a man by George Condo (15,000/30,000) and Henry Moore's 34 centimeter high bronze "Study for Head of Warrior" from 1953 (15,000/30,000) are further outliers in the red-white-red range.

Four watercolors by Martha Jungwirth are up for auction, including a gestural painting from 1994 that was laid on linen (10,000/20,000).

An overpainting on paper from 1957, an almost completely black rectangle (50,000/100,000), leads to Arnulf Rainer's early work.

In the 1970s, the approach became more playful, as evidenced by the titles "Stupid Requests (for Veiling)" or "Van Gogh as a Drinking Fighting Cock" (15,000/30,000 each).

The classic modern category is headed by a “Tiroler Kaiserschütze” by Alfons Walde.

The painter from Kitzbühel created the robust three-quarter view in 1934 on a 31 by 29 centimeter cardboard (70,000/140,000).

If you're looking for typical Alpine motifs, this time you have to stick to Oskar Mulley's "Bergbauernhof" (25,000/50,000).

A batch of six oil paintings by Anton Faistauer arrived at the Kinsky fresh from the market.

In addition to the "Portrait of a Lady" in the typical red-brown colour, which shows the artist's sister (30,000/60,000), the "Fruit and Flower Still Life with a Brown Bottle" also testifies to Cézanne's influence on the Salzburg painter (40,000/80,000).

The Graz painter Norbertine Bresslern-Roth created the typically soft character of her animal pictures by dabbing the oil paint onto coarse jute squares with a bristle brush.

Highly decorative you "Tiger",