Modern & Contemporary Auction

Property from the Collection of the Late Manfred Wandel, Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen

Willi Baumeister

Epischer Fries

Lot Closed

April 7, 12:16 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Willi Baumeister

1889 - 1955

Epischer Fries

signed Baumeister and dated 53 (lower right); signed Baumeister, dated 1953, titled Epischer Fries and inscribed on the reverse

oil on masonite

50 by 110 cm., 19½ by 43¼ in.

Executed in 1953.

Industrie- und Handelskammer, Stuttgart

Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart

Manfred Wandel, Reutlingen (Stiftung für konkrete Kunst)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1963, no. 1385, illustrated (titled as Epischer Fries I)

Peter Beye & Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister, Werkkatalog der Gemälde, Ostfildern, 2002, vol. II, no. 1846, illustrated p. 729