Sale: 470 / Post War I, June 09. 2018 in Munich Lot 859

 

859
Herbert Zangs
Reliefbild, 1955.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 45,000 / $ 48,600
Sold:
€ 56,250 / $ 60,750

(incl. surcharge)
Reliefbild. 1955.
Mixed media . White paint with additive, stencil, on an unfolded lid of a cardboard box painted in white and mounted in an object frame.
De Martelaere I.3.31. Signed in lower center. 56 x 36 x 0.8 cm (22 x 14.1 x 0.3 in). Object box: 67,5 x 47,5 x 8 cm ( 26,5 x 18,7 x 3,1 in).
[EH].

Accompanied by a photo expertise issued by Emmy de Martelaere, Herbert Zangs Archive, from February 24, 2016. The work is registered at the archive with the number "1369".

PROVENANCE: Adolf-Luther-Stiftung, Krefeld.
Galerie la Bertesca, Düsseldorf.
Private collection Milan.
Private collection Krefeld.

"The absolutely white surface remains unmastered. My whitenings are my way to abstract and reduce things. An attempt to reach spiritualization in imagination.“ Herbert Zangs, quote after: Neue Arbeiten, Verlaggalerie, Düsseldorf 1975, p. 1.




859
Herbert Zangs
Reliefbild, 1955.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 45,000 / $ 48,600
Sold:
€ 56,250 / $ 60,750

(incl. surcharge)