Sale: 22 / Online Sale, Dec. 13. 2021 → Lot 121000649
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121000649
Willi Baumeister
Komposition in Grün, 1954.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 2,500 / $ 2,875 Sold:
€ 3,375 / $ 3,881 (incl. surcharge)
121000649
Willi Baumeister
Komposition in Grün, 1954.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 2,500 / $ 2,875 Sold:
€ 3,375 / $ 3,881 (incl. surcharge)
Komposition in Grün. 1954.
Silkscreen in colors.
Spielmann/Baumeister 205. Signed. From an edition of 70 copies. On wove paper. 42.5 x 51.4 cm (16.7 x 20.2 in). Sheet: 54 x 76 cm (21,3 x 29,3 in).
Published by Kunstverlag Fingerle, Esslingen. After the painting "Grün mit Blau und Schwarz" from 1950 (Beye/Baumeister 1605). [EH].
• The artist created a linear composition with a primeval appeal in his characteristic style.
• As artist and teacher, Willi Baumeister is one of the most prominent figures of German Modernism.
• The rendition of paintings as graphic sheets is a method that Baumeister pursued with consistency and is an examination of his own work, parts of which were lost during the war.
• Graphic sheets by the artist are at, among others, the State Museums Berlin, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the MoMA New York.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart.
South-western German private collection (acquired from the above in 1991).
LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann und Willi Baumeister, Das Graphische Werk, Hamburg 1963-1966, published as compendium in 1972, no. 36.
Willi Baumeister zum 100. Geburtstag. Die Serigraphien, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, edited by Brigitte Reinhardt, Stuttgart 1989, no. 41 .
In good condition. Left margin partly compressed, with minimal handling marks in places of margins.
Silkscreen in colors.
Spielmann/Baumeister 205. Signed. From an edition of 70 copies. On wove paper. 42.5 x 51.4 cm (16.7 x 20.2 in). Sheet: 54 x 76 cm (21,3 x 29,3 in).
Published by Kunstverlag Fingerle, Esslingen. After the painting "Grün mit Blau und Schwarz" from 1950 (Beye/Baumeister 1605). [EH].
• The artist created a linear composition with a primeval appeal in his characteristic style.
• As artist and teacher, Willi Baumeister is one of the most prominent figures of German Modernism.
• The rendition of paintings as graphic sheets is a method that Baumeister pursued with consistency and is an examination of his own work, parts of which were lost during the war.
• Graphic sheets by the artist are at, among others, the State Museums Berlin, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the MoMA New York.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart.
South-western German private collection (acquired from the above in 1991).
LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann und Willi Baumeister, Das Graphische Werk, Hamburg 1963-1966, published as compendium in 1972, no. 36.
Willi Baumeister zum 100. Geburtstag. Die Serigraphien, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, edited by Brigitte Reinhardt, Stuttgart 1989, no. 41 .
In good condition. Left margin partly compressed, with minimal handling marks in places of margins.
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