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Wolfgang Paalen

Baden near Vienna 1905 – 1959 Taxco, Mexico

"Avertissement I (Peinture)". 1934

Oil and tempera on canvas. 115 × 195 cm (45 ¼ × 76 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wolfgang Paalen.

Estimate:

EUR 200,000

 

- 300,000

USD 215,000

 

- 323,000

Sold for:

387,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2020

From Dürer to Balkenhol – Selected Works, Thursday, 09.07.2020

Information

Oil and tempera on canvas. 115 × 195 cm (45 ¼ × 76 ¾ in.). Signed and dated lower right: PAALEN 34. Catalogue raisonné: Neufert 34.11. Some craquelure. Framed

We would like to thank Dr. Andreas Neufert, Paalen Archive Berlin, for kindly providing additional information. .

Studio of the artist, Mill Valley/California (1951) / Gordon Onslow Ford, Inverness/California (1992) / Private Collection, Munich (2001) / Private Collection, Baden-Wuerttemberg

A loan request has been made by the Kunstmuseum Lucerne for their exhibition project on the famous exhibition „These, Antithese, Synthese" in 1935.

These–Antithese–Synthese. Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, 1935, Cat.-Nr. 86 / Wolfgang Paalen. Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion. Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 1993, p. 60, ill. p. 99 / Wolfgang Paalen. Retrospectiva. México Ciudad, Museo Carrillo Gil, 1994, p. 89 / Abstracta: Austria, Germania, Italia, 1919–1939, Die andere „entartete Kunst“, L´altra „arte degenerata“. Bozen/Bolzano, Museion – Museum für Moderne Kunst/Museo d´Arte Moderna; Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum; Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 1997/98, ill. p. 79 / Wolfgang Paalen. 1905–1959. Denker und Visionär. Im Medium der Malerei. Dresden, Galerie Döbele, 2001, ill. p. 47 / Wolfgang Paalen (1905–59). Der österreichische Surrealist in Paris und Mexiko. Wien, Unteres Belvedere, 2019/20, ill. p. 42/43

Hommage à Wolfgang Paalen el pionero. México Ciudad, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec, 1967

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