Lot 200
  • 200

Joseph Beuys

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joseph Beuys
  • Untitled
  • signed and dated 1960 on the reverse
  • pencil on paper
  • 29.8 by 21 cm. 11 3/4 by 8 1/4 in.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Bonn, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, Joseph Beuys. Zeichnungen. Tekeningen. Drawings, November 1979 - September 1980, n.p., no. 57, illustrated
Ghent, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Signaturen, March - June 1988, p. 103, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the pencil is not brown but grey in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The sheet is attached verso to the mount in several places. Close inspection reveals some tiny media accretions and handling marks that are likely to be original.
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