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Lot 76
  • 76

Rudolf Bauer 1889-1953

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Rudolf Bauer
  • Sinfonie 23
  • signed Rudolf Bauer (lower right); signed (on the reverse) 
  • oil on canvas
  • 29 5/8 by 39 1/2 in.
  • 75.3 by 100.3 cm.
  • Painted in 1919.

Provenance

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
Adler/Castillo Gallery

Exhibited

Berlin, Der Sturm, n.d.
Berlin, Das Geistreich, n.d. (stamped twice with the Das Geistreich stamp on the stretcher)

Condition

1916-1919 is written on the overlap, possibly in another hand. Canvas not lined. Small areas of craquelure in areas of crimson pigment along the right edge. Small spots of paint loss in upper right quadrant. Tiny spot of paint loss in the blue area top center and a hair from paintbrush upper left. Minor soiling to surface. Some frame abrasion. Under UV: small scattered spots of inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

German-born artist Rudolf Bauer was a pivotal force in the avant-garde gallery, Der Sturm, founded in Berlin by Herwarth Walden in 1912. Along with Bauer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall, Bauer actively participated in the lyrical, abstract movement fostered by Walden's Der Sturm.

Rudolf Bauer founded Das Geistreich (translated as "Realm of the Spirit"), a fashionable salon in Berlin in 1930, which was funded in part by the sale of his paintings to Solomon R. Guggenheim. The current work was exhibited in this space, which was committed to showing his work and that of his friend and mentor, Wassily Kandinsky. Bauer's ideas of Non-Objective art promoted at Das Geistreich were an important precursor to the philosophy espoused by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (initially called The Museum of Non-Objective Painting).