Rudolf Bauer

Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (acquired from the artist)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Galleria del Levante, Munich
Private Collection, Sweden (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, February 16, 1989, lot 88)
Private Foundation (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 7, 2012, lot 320)
Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Berlin, Das Geistreich (Rudolf Bauer Museum)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Art of Tomorrow, Fifth Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1939, no. 167, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1948

Esquire Magazine, New York, June 1946, illustrated in a photograph of Hurd Hatfield, n.p.

This work is in excellent condition. The canvas is not lined. The edges have been reinforced with tape. Under UV light there is one spot of retouching in the white circle at upper left corner and one small stroke in the dark green pigment just to the left of the central circle. There are a few tiny pindot retouches in the large blue circle above bottom center and one small spot at the center of the right half of the bottom edge. There are a few other tiny pindot retouches scattered throughout but these are exceedingly minor.
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