WILLI BAUMEISTER | Seilspringerin; Badende (Rope skipper; Bather)

Johannes Schubert, Stuttgart
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt (acquired from the above in 1960)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Die Sammlung Karl Ströher, 2, 1965-66, n.p., no. 1, illustrated 

Erika Pohl, Ursula Ströher and Gerhard Pohl, Karl Ströher, Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart, 1982, p. 38, no. 23, illustrated (titled Badende)
Peter Beye and Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister, Werkkatalog der Gemälde, Vol. II, Ostfildern 2002, p. 69, no. 144, illustrated 

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly lighter and brighter in the original. Condition: This work is in good condition. The canvas has been laid down on a canvas support. Extremely close inspection reveals a few minute specks of loss in isolated places throughout. Very close inspection in raking light reveals some very slight canvas draw to all four corners. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals inpainting along all four edges with some very short and faint associated cracks to the canvas joins in isolated places.
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