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Willi Baumeister

1889 – Stuttgart – 1955

”Figur”. 1922/23

Body colour in white, grey, red, brown, ochre, light blue and black and pencil on paper. 43,6 × 29,4 cm (17 ⅛ × 11 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Willi Baumeister. ”Figur”. 1922/23.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 60,000

USD 44,000

 

- 65,900

Sold for:

88,900 EUR (incl. premium)

Winter Auctions 2024

Selected Works, Thursday, 28.11.2024

Information

Body colour in white, grey, red, brown, ochre, light blue and black and pencil on paper. 43,6 × 29,4 cm (17 ⅛ × 11 ⅝ in.). On the cardboard backing of the mount a label of Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich. There too on an attached paper signed and dated in pen and black ink: W Baumeister 1922/23. Catalogue raisonné: Ponert 131. Framed

The first owner of the gouache, the Swiss architect Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt (1900-1958), is considered a pioneer of regional planning and worked as a lecturer for theatre construction at ETH Zurich.

Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt, Küsnacht (acquired from the artist) / Private Collection, Berlin

Willi Baumeister. Paris, Galerie d'Art Contemporain, 1927

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