Lot 38
  • 38

Rudolf Bauer

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Description

  • Rudolf Bauer
  • Happy
  • Signed Rudolf Bauer Baut (lower right)
  • Watercolor, tempera, pen and ink and pastel on paper
  • 17 1/8 by 12 5/8 in.
  • 43.5 by 32 cm

Provenance

Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (acquired from the artist)
Hilla Rebay, Berlin & New York

Exhibited

Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1936, no. 18, illustrated in the catalogue
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Second Enlarged Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1937, no. 18, illustrated in the catalogue
Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Third Enlarged Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, "Non-Objectivity is the Realm of Spirit", 1938, no. 34, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Art of Tomorrow, Fifth Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1939, no. 93, illustrated in the catalogue
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Rudolf Bauer, 2007, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Rudolf Bauer: Works on Paper, 2010, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. Hinged to mat at two places along upper edge on verso. Very faint thin mat stain along bottom of left edge. Spots of discoloration at four corners on verso from prior mounting, not visible on recto. Medium is very bright and fresh and work is in excellent condition overall.
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