Sale: 390 / Post War/Contemporary Art, April 28. 2012 in Munich Lot 727

 
Joseph Beuys - Bein


727
Joseph Beuys
Bein, 1961.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 800 / $ 856
Sold:
€ 2,375 / $ 2,541

(incl. surcharge)
Bein. 1961.
Woodcut.
Schellmann 90. Signed, dated and numbered 32/50. On wove paper by BFK Rives (with watermark). 31,7 x 30,7 cm (12,4 x 12 in). Sheet: 50,4 x 65,5 cm (19,8 x 25,7 in).
This sheet is a woodcut from an edition that was first made in 1973/74 from printing blocks cut between 1948 to 1961. Each one sheet of these woodcuts in black were added to the de-luxe-edition A of the book "Joseph Beuys. Bleistiftzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1946-1964" by Franz Joseph and Hans van der Grinten, which was publsihed by Heiner Bastian in Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. Printed by Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Gaesdonk. [KP].

PROVENANCE: Private collection Hamburg.




727
Joseph Beuys
Bein, 1961.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 800 / $ 856
Sold:
€ 2,375 / $ 2,541

(incl. surcharge)