Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny)
Composition
Auction Closed
November 25, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny)
1894 - 1956
Composition
signed in Cyrillic IV PUNI., numbered 25a, inscribed and dated 1917g (lower right); bearing various labels (on the backing board)
ink and pencil on paper laid on card
32.5 by 25.5 cm, 11¾ by 10 in.
Frame: 52 by 43.5 cm, 20½ by 17¼ in.
Executed in 1917.
The artist
Collection of Herman Berninger (1911-2012), Zurich
Acquired from the widow of the above by the present owner
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Iwan Puni, 1921, no. 5
Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, Ambiente/Arte, 13 June - 10 October 1976
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Origini dell'astrattismo: Verso altri orizzonti del reale (1885-1919), 18 October 1979 - 18 January 1980, no. 460
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Die Sprache der Geometrie, 17 March - 13 May 1984
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Jean Pougny/Iwan Puni, 1892-1956, 13 May - 22 August; 10 September - 14 November 1993, no. 127
Kunsthaus Zürich, Iwan Puni (1892-1956): Werke und Dokumente (1915-1919) aus dem Puni-Archiv Zürich, 29 January - 25 April 1999, no. 3
Herman Berninger and Jean-Albert Cartier, Pougny, Catalogue de l’œuvre, vol.1, Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1972, no. 140 p. 206, illustrated b/w
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