Lot 226 
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226
Willi Baumeister
Giganten, 1946.
Oil with synthetic resin and filler on thin car...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600 Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 44,958 (incl. surcharge)
Giganten. 1946.
Oil with synthetic resin and filler on thin cardboard.
Signed and dated in the upper right. 35.5 x 46.2 cm (13.9 x 18.1 in).
[AR].
• From the work group “Giganten” (Giants), which the artist started in 1944 before the end of the war.
• The amorphous shadow figures and mysterious relief structures reflect the great uncertainty of the period in which they were created, but at the same time, the subtle dots of color provide the first timid counterpoints.
• In the year it was created, Baumeister was appointed to teach at the Stuttgart Academy.
• From the private collection of his friend, Swiss artist Max Bill (1908–1994).
PROVENANCE: Max Bill, Zürich.
Private collection, South Germany
In family ownership since.
LITERATURE: Peter Beye, Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister. Werkkatalog der Gemälde, vol. II, Ostfildern 2002, catalogue raisonné no. 1240 (illustrated).
Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister - Leben und Werk, Cologne 1963, p. 104, catalogue raisonné no. 890 (illustrated, here as "Giganten II").
Oil with synthetic resin and filler on thin cardboard.
Signed and dated in the upper right. 35.5 x 46.2 cm (13.9 x 18.1 in).
[AR].
• From the work group “Giganten” (Giants), which the artist started in 1944 before the end of the war.
• The amorphous shadow figures and mysterious relief structures reflect the great uncertainty of the period in which they were created, but at the same time, the subtle dots of color provide the first timid counterpoints.
• In the year it was created, Baumeister was appointed to teach at the Stuttgart Academy.
• From the private collection of his friend, Swiss artist Max Bill (1908–1994).
PROVENANCE: Max Bill, Zürich.
Private collection, South Germany
In family ownership since.
LITERATURE: Peter Beye, Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister. Werkkatalog der Gemälde, vol. II, Ostfildern 2002, catalogue raisonné no. 1240 (illustrated).
Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister - Leben und Werk, Cologne 1963, p. 104, catalogue raisonné no. 890 (illustrated, here as "Giganten II").
226
Willi Baumeister
Giganten, 1946.
Oil with synthetic resin and filler on thin car...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600 Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 44,958 (incl. surcharge)
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