Lot 28
  • 28

HANS HARTUNG | D1947-11

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hans Hartung
  • D1947-11
  • signed and dated 47
  • pencil, pastel and tempera on paper
  • 48,5 x 65 cm; 19 1/16 x 25 9/16 in.
  • Executed in 1947.

Provenance

Galerie Lydia Conti, Paris
Private Collection, Belgium 

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Lydia Conti, Hartung Dessins 1922-1948, 1948
Stuttgart, Galerie Lutz et Meyer, Hans Hartung, 1949

Literature

Madeleine Rousseau, James Johnson Sweeney, Hans Hartung, Stuttgart, 1949, illustrated
Karl Ringstrom, Un "rĂ©aliste parmi les abstraits" Hans Hartung, Paris, September 1957
Will Grohmann, Werner Schmalenbach, Franz Roh, Hans Hartung: Rubenspreis der stadt Siegen, Siegen, 1958

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. Pinholes are located in each of the four corners. The background has yellowed and when unframed more yellowing is visible along the edges. Please refer for the Contemporary Department for additional images. A stain, possibly constitutive, is visible in the upper right corner, and in the catalogue illustration. This work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work is registered in the archives of the Fondation Hartung Bergman. It will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Hans Hartung currently being prepared by the Fondation Hartung Bergman.