Lot 29
  • 29

Rudolf Bauer

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Description

  • Rudolf Bauer
  • Ohne Titel (Cubist Woman)
  • Signed Rudolf Bauer (lower left)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 8 7/8 by 6 in.
  • 22.5 by 15.3 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany (and sold: Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, May 31, 2011, lot 342)
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

(Probably) New York, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, Evolution in Painting from 1900 to 1952— Academism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Abstraction—to Non-Objectivity, 1952, n.n.

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. Sheet is mounted on a mat with corner tabs at three corners. Left edge of sheet is deckled and there is a torn loss to the right half of the bottom edge, seemingly very old if not original to the sheet, outside of the image area. The sheet is somewhat dirty overall with faint staining toward the perimeter. Scattered studio stains on verso, otherwise fine. Overall in generally good condition.
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