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Willi Baumeister

1889 – Stuttgart – 1955

„Safer 6“. 1953

Oil with resin and sand on burlap on masonite. 100 x 81 cm (39 ⅜ x 31 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Willi Baumeister. „Safer 6“. 1953.

Estimate:

EUR 200,000

 

- 250,000

USD 267,000

 

- 334,000

Sold for:

353,800 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 187-192

Selected Works, Thursday, 24.11.2011

Information

Oil with resin and sand on burlap on masonite. 100 x 81 cm (39 ⅜ x 31 ⅞ in.). Titled, dated and signed with crayon on the reverse: Safer 6 1953 Baumeister. Catalogue raisonné: Beye/Baumeister 1877. On the reverse a label of Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (see below). Framed

Collection Karl Ströher, Darmstadt / Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Signed lower left (incised with pencil into the wet paint): Baumeister

Willi Baumeister. Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1954, cat. no. 192 / Kunst unserer Zeit. Privatsammlung Karl Ströher. Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, 1954, cat. no. 18 full-page illustration

Erich Wiese: Die Sammlung Karl Ströher in Darmstadt. In: Das Kunstwerk, 1957, issue 5/6, pp. 20, ill. / Erika Pohl-Ströher, Ursula Ströher and Gerhard Pohl (eds.): Karl Ströher. Sammler und Sammlung. Stuttgart 1982, p. 258, no. 46 illustration

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