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Fritz Glarner

Fritz Glarner, Relational Painting #70

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

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Fritz Glarner 

1899 - 1972


Relational Painting #70

signed Glarner and dated 1954 (lower left); signed Fritz Glarner, titled and dated New York 1954 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas, in artist’s frame 

29 by 17 in.

73.7 by 43.2 cm. 

Executed in New York in 1954.

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (acquired by 1955)

B.C. Holland, Chicago

Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in October 1984)

Dr. Marvin and Mrs. Natalie Gliedman (acquired from the above on 21 December 1985)

Christie’s, Hong Kong, 2 December 2020, lot 31 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Glarner: Rythme de New-York, 1955, no. 21

Kunsthaus Zurich, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1956, no. 90, p. 35, illustrated; pp. 33-34

Chartres, Chambre de Commerce, Exposition de peinture contemporaine, 1958

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Fritz Glarner: Peintures (1949-1962), 1966, no. X, illustrated in color on the cover

Dore Ashton, "Fritz Glarner," XXe siècle, nouvelle série, no. IX, June 1957, p. 49, illustrated in color (titled Relational Painting)

Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire universel de l'art des artistes, vol. 2, Paris, 1967, p. 43, illustrated in color

Margit Weinberg-Staber, Fritz Glarner, Zurich, 1976, p. 132, illustrated