Sale: 488 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, June 08. 2019 in Munich Lot 532

 

532
Joseph Pillhofer
Schmale mit erhobenem Arm, Ca. 1956-1959.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 14,980
Sold:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,737

(incl. surcharge)
Schmale mit erhobenem Arm. Ca. 1956-1959.
Bronze with brown patina.
The artist's online index of sculptures, no number. Plinth with stamped artist's monogram. From an edition of 6 copies. Ca. 142 x 28.5 x 38.5 cm (55.9 x 11.2 x 15.1 in).
Karyatide study from the artist's time in Vienna.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Welz, Salzburg.
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from aforementioned).

"What is most striking about Pillhofer's art is the balance. He says that's because the figures are developed from a nucleus, a center, and we can only agree when he says his works are lyricism, lyricism in the sense of an act of compression."
Quote. Alfred Schmeller, preface in leaflet for the exhibition "Josef Pillhofer", Galerie auf der Stubenbastei, Vienna 1970.




532
Joseph Pillhofer
Schmale mit erhobenem Arm, Ca. 1956-1959.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 14,980
Sold:
€ 21,250 / $ 22,737

(incl. surcharge)