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Rudolf Bauer
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Rudolf Bauer
- Untitled (Barking Poodle)
- signed Rudolf Bauer (lower centre)
- watercolour, gouache, oil and brush and ink on paper
- 43.8 by 32.4cm., 17 1/4 by 12 3/4 in.
Provenance
Estate of the artist, Vienna
Portico NY, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Portico NY, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Fiorella Urbinati Gallery & traveling, Rudolf Bauer- Centennial Exhibition, 1989-90
Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, Champions of Modernism, 1999
New York, Wendt Gallery, Champions of Modernism III, 2011
Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, Champions of Modernism, 1999
New York, Wendt Gallery, Champions of Modernism III, 2011
Condition
Executed on cream wove paper. Sheet is backed with paper strips along extreme edges on verso. T-hinged to the mount at the upper corners. There is some faint mount stain around extreme left and bottom edges. There are some tiny scuffs and surface stains at lower left corner and some small cracking with associated tiny losses in thickest spot of pigment at top center of black form. This work is in overall good condition.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Rudolf Bauer’s 1920 drawing is a non-objective work that calls to mind a bird’s eye view of a dog on a leash. A longtime friend of the Futurist artist Filippo Marinetti, it is likely that Bauer was harkening back to Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash,a 1912 work by fellow Futurist Giacomo Balla, when he created this composition. It has been speculated that the burst of color above the canine image in Bauer's work is the sound of the dog's bark, a concept in line with the synesthesic nature of his output. If so, then Bauer may have intended to one-up Balla by illustrating not only the dynamism of the poodle's gait, but also the sound of its voice.