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

Willi Baumeister

Metamorphose

Artist's Resale Right

Lot Closed

April 7, 12:19 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Willi Baumeister

1889 - 1955

Metamorphose

signed Baumeister and dated 5.52 (lower right); signed Baumeister, dated 1952, titled Metamorphose, inscribed and dedicated Cuno Fischer herzlichst Baumeister

oil, synthetic resin and tempera on masonite

48 by 65 cm., 18¾ by 25½ in.

Executed in 1952.

Cuno Fischer, Stuttgart

Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart

Manfred Wandel, Reutlingen (Stiftung für konkrete Kunst)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Peter Beye & Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister, Werkkatalog der Gemälde, Ostfildern, 2002, vol. II, no. 1705, illustrated p. 672