Lot 326 
Raumbeispiel
326
Emil Schumacher
Bar-ba-rossa, 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,800 Sold:
€ 38,700 / $ 44,892 (incl. surcharge)
Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
Bar-ba-rossa. 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with a directionl arrow on the reverse of the canvas. 60 x 50 cm (23.6 x 19.6 in). [AW].
• Extraordinary work in color and materiality.
• Schumacher liberates color from form and line from the objective subject.
• Works from the 1950s are part of important museum collections today, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe.
The work is registered at the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, Germany, under the inventory number “0/91". We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind asexpert advice.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Milan.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1994).
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 200th auction, June 5, 1994, lot 143 (illustrated in color).
1912 - 1999
Bar-ba-rossa. 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with a directionl arrow on the reverse of the canvas. 60 x 50 cm (23.6 x 19.6 in). [AW].
• Extraordinary work in color and materiality.
• Schumacher liberates color from form and line from the objective subject.
• Works from the 1950s are part of important museum collections today, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe.
The work is registered at the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, Germany, under the inventory number “0/91". We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind asexpert advice.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Milan.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1994).
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 200th auction, June 5, 1994, lot 143 (illustrated in color).
326
Emil Schumacher
Bar-ba-rossa, 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,800 Sold:
€ 38,700 / $ 44,892 (incl. surcharge)
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