FRANZ RADZIWILL | GESPRÄCH ÜBER EINEN PARAGRAPHEN (CONVERSATION ABOUT A PARAGRAPH)

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Magic Realism and Beyond: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

FRANZ RADZIWILL

1895 - 1983

GESPRÄCH ÜBER EINEN PARAGRAPHEN (CONVERSATION ABOUT A PARAGRAPH)

signed Fr. Radziwill and dated 29 (lower right)

oil on canvas laid down on board

79.3 by 100.5cm., 31⅛ by 39½in.

Framed: 99 by 120cm., 39 by 47¼in.

Painted in 1929 with additions by the artist in 1960.

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Galleria del Levante, Milan/Munich

Private Collection, Modena

Sale: Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co., Munich, 19th June 2009, lot 245

Sale: Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co., Munich, 4th June 2011, lot 62

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

'Radziwill' in Ulenspiegel, issue 4, January 1947, no. 102, illustrated p. 7

Emilio Bertonati, Il Realismo in Germania. Nuova oggettivitá – realismo magico, Milan, 1969, pl. XLV, illustrated in colour

Gerd Presler, ‘Ein famoser Kerl’, in art, Hamburg, issue 1, 1980, p. 110

Andrea Firmenich & Rainer W. Schulze, Franz Radziwill, Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 1995, no. 308, illustrated p. 357

Darmstadt, Städtische Ausstellungsgebäude, Der schöne Mensch in der neuen Kunst, 1929, no. 120

Wilhelmshaven, Kaiser Friedrich Kunsthalle, Franz Radziwill, 1936, n.n.

Hamburg, Kaufhaus Alsterhaus, Franz Radziwill, 1946-47, n.n.

Cologne, Galerie Baukunst, Franz Radziwill, 1968, no. 32

Rome, Galleria Il Fante di Spade & Modena, Galleria La Mutina, Franz Radziwill, 1969, no. 12, illustrated in the catalogue

Milan, Galleria Eunomia, Franz Radziwill, 1971, no. 12

Parma, Nuova Galleria del Teatro, Franz Radziwill, 1971, n.n.

Berlin, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst & Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Franz Radziwill, 1981-82, no. 51 (titled Freundinnen)

Milan, Palazzo Sociale, Nuova Oggettività. Germania e Italia, 1995

London, Tate Modern, Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany, 2018-19, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue