Rudolf Bauer

Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (acquired from the artist)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London
Larry Harvey, California (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, February 16, 1989, lot 86)
Private Foundation (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 7, 2012, lot 322)
Acquired at the above sale

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. 43, illustrated in the catalogue

Karole Vail, ed., The Museum of Non-Objective Painting: Hilla Rebay and the Origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2009, illustrated in a photograh p. 66

This work is in very good condition. The board is stable with some very slight undulation throughout. The corners of the board have been reinforced on the reverse and the edges are reinforced with tape. The surface is clean. There is a nail-head sized loss just to the left of the center of the upper left quadrant. Under UV light there is a small area of restoration at extreme lower left corner as well as hairline retouches in the thickest area of white pigment just below the reddish rectangle at center, to address prior pigment separation, otherwise fine.
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