Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 436

 

436
Hans Hartung
Ohne Titel (P.M. 1961-66), 1961.
Color Oil crayon
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 52,500 / $ 56,700

(incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel (P.M. 1961-66). 1961.
Color Oil crayon.
Lower right signed and dedicated "A sadar Wada tres amicalement 24/3/62". Verso inscribed with the work number "P.M.1961-66" and with two direction arrow. On smooth white board. 49.7 x 36.5 cm (19.5 x 14.3 in).

• Characteristic, energetic composition with fine accentuations in blue, brown and yellow.
• The line is the key characteristic feature in Hartung's multi-faceted oeuvre, which he increases to a dynamic gesture in close-up view.
• In 1975 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, honored the European protagonist of Informalism with a solo show.
• Hartung's dynamic creations were show along with works by the American representatives de Kooning, Pollock and Twombly in the exhibition "Action Painting" at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, in 2008
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Munich (until 1998)
Private collection Hesse (acquired from above in 1998).

LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst Hamburg, 174th auction, Works on Paper, March 28, 1998, lot 369 (with illu.).




436
Hans Hartung
Ohne Titel (P.M. 1961-66), 1961.
Color Oil crayon
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 52,500 / $ 56,700

(incl. surcharge)