Bakelite Display. 1971.
Watercolor, color pencil, gouache and Acrylic on paper.
Signed and dated “11 December 1971” lower right, titled lower left (each scratched into the wet paint). On light board. Actual depiction: 45.3 x 26.5 cm (17.8 x 10.4 in). Sheet (also painted): 59,6 x 40 cm (23,4 x 15,7 in).
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• With six decades of creative work, Almut Heise has established a unique and consistent position in figurative contemporary art.
Between 1967 and 1970, Heise studied at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, where Gotthard Graubner and Paul Wunderlich were among her teachers. During her DAAD scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London, she studied under Allen Jones, David Hockney, and Peter Blake, among others.
• In her early works, Heise focused on interiors from the post-war period and the time of the German Wirtschaftswunder (Economic Miracle).
• Today, the artist's works are part of important museum collections, including the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, and the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden.
• The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (Pinakothek der Moderne) presents an extensive solo exhibition of her drawings until January 4, 2025.

PROVENANCE: Michael Becher Collection, Istanbul.
From a Swiss collection.

EXHIBITION: Almut Heise. Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, May 17 - June 30, 1974, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, August 7 - September 15, 1974, p. 87, cat. no. 92 (with full-page illu.).

LITERATURE: Marie-Catherine Vogt, Almut Heise. Catalogue raisonné II (drawings, etchings), Berlin 2024, p. 94, cat. no. Z 69 (with full-page color ill., on p. 192).