Lot 15
  • 15

Rudolf Bauer

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Description

  • Rudolf Bauer
  • Symphony in Three Movements (Center Panel)
  • Signed Bauer (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 51 3/8 by 61 1/4 in.
  • 130.5 by 155.6 cm

Provenance

Das Geistreich (Rudolf Bauer Museum), Charlottenburg
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (acquired from the artist by 1940)
Galleria del Levante, Milan
Private Collection, Houston (acquired from the above in 1973 and sold: Christie's, New York, May 13, 1992, lot 264)

Exhibited

Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1936, no. 47, illustrated in the catalogue
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Second Enlarged Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1937, no. 47, illustrated in the catalogue
Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Third Enlarged Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, "Non-Objectivity is the Realm of Spirit", 1938, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue
Baltimore, Museum of Art, Fourth Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, "Non-Objectivity is the Realm of Spirit", 1939, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Art of Tomorrow, Fifth Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1939, no. 133, illustrated in the catalogue
New Rochelle, New York, The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle; Mary Washington College Galleries, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Charleston, Gibbes Museum of Art; Charleston, West Virginia, Sunrise Museum; Melbourne, Florida, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Champions of Modernism: Non-Objective Art of the 1930s and 40s and its Legacy, 1996-98, illustrated in the catalogue and on the cover
New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, European Art Between the World Wars, 2004, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Munich, Museum Villa Stuck; Murnau, Schlossmuseum; Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim, 2005-06, no. 151, illustrated in the catalogue 

Literature

Hilla Rebay, Innovation, une nouvelle ère artistique, Paris, 1937, illustrated p. 9
“Art Can Be Fun: This Proves It,” in Newsday, September 2, 1949, illustrated n.p.
Karole Vail, ed., The Museum of Non-Objective Painting: Hilla Rebay and the Origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, published on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (exhibition catalogue), New York, 2009, no. 58, illustrated pp. 65 & 118 

Condition


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