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Willi Baumeister

1889 – Stuttgart – 1955

„Fra Diavolo (auf Gelb)“. 1951

Oil with resin on masonite. In artist's frame. 65 x 81 cm (25 ⅝ x 31 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Willi Baumeister. „Fra Diavolo (auf Gelb)“. 1951.

Estimate:

EUR 150,000

 

- 200,000

USD 162,000

 

- 216,000

Sold for:

187,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

Van Gogh to Twombly. Selected Works, Thursday, 04.06.2015

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Oil with resin on masonite. In artist's frame. 65 x 81 cm (25 ⅝ x 31 ⅞ in.). Signed and dated in pencil lower right: Baumeister 7.51. On the reverse titled, dated, signed and inscribed in chalk: Fra Diavolo (auf Gelb) 1951 Baumeister 81 x 65 cm. On the frame at the top labels of the G. D. Thomson collection, the Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl and the Feigl Gallery, New York. Catalogue raisonné: Beye/Baumeister 2042. Framed

Hacker Gallery, New York / G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh / Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich / formerly private collection (acquired 1957 at Stangl, Munich)

Willi Baumeister. New York, Hacker Gallery, 1952, with ill. / Willi Baumeister. Munich, Galerie Otto Stangl, 1956 (not in catalogue, visible in an interior photograph of the exhibition held by the Baumeister Archive)

Will Grohmann: Willi Baumeister. Stuttgart 1952, p. 59, cat. no. 142, with colour ill. / Will Grohmann: Willi Baumeister. Leben und Werk. Cologne, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1963, cat. no. 1123, with ill. / Oto Bihalji-Merin: Willi Baumeister. in: Quadrum, no. 8, 1960, p. 59-74, here colour ill. p. 63 / Morris Davidson: Painting with Purpose. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964, p. 107, ill. 41

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