Lot 148
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WALTER DEXEL | Dreiviertel-S-Form Weiss V (Three-Quarter-S-Form White V)

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Walter Dexel
  • Dreiviertel-S-Form Weiss V (Three-Quarter-S-Form White V)
  • signed W Dexel and dated 25 on the artist's frame; signed Walter Dexel, dated 1925 and titled on the reverse
  • tempera on glass in the artist's original frame
  • 39.3 by 29.7cm., 15 1/2 by 11 3/4 in.
  • Painted in 1925.

Provenance

Galerie Teufel, Cologne
Dr H.C. Branco Weiss, Zurich (acquired from the above in 1979; sale: Sotheby's, London, 20th June 2013, lot 117)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Münster, Münster City Museum & Ulm, Ulmer Museum, Walter Dexel. A Retrospective Exhibition of the Artist's Works, 1925, no. 135, illustrated in the catalogue
Berlin, Mahler der Jüryfreien, 1927, illustrated in the catalogue
Münster, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Walter Dexel, 1979, no. 135, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Walter Vitt, Hommage à Dexel, Starnberg, 1980, illustrated pp. 45-6
Ruth Wöbkemeier, Walter Vitt, Walter Dexel & Werner Hofmann (eds.), Walter Dexel Werkverzeichnis, Neustadt, 1998, no. 286, illustrated p. 244

Condition

Painted over glass which is in good condition. UV examination reveals some small spots of retouching along the upper left edge and there is an uneven varnish which causes some areas to fluoresce. There are a few spots of paint loss to the black paint in the lower left area, and a few scattered spots along the upper edge. This work is in overall very good condition.
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