Modern & Contemporary Auction
Modern & Contemporary Auction
Property from the Collection of the Late Manfred Wandel, Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen
Willi Baumeister
Metamorphose
Lot Closed
April 7, 12:19 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Willi Baumeister
1889 - 1955
Metamorphose
signed Baumeister and dated 5.52 (lower right); signed Baumeister, dated 1952, titled Metamorphose, inscribed and dedicated Cuno Fischer herzlichst Baumeister
oil, synthetic resin and tempera on masonite
48 by 65 cm., 18¾ by 25½ in.
Executed in 1952.
Cuno Fischer, Stuttgart
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart
Manfred Wandel, Reutlingen (Stiftung für konkrete Kunst)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Peter Beye & Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister, Werkkatalog der Gemälde, Ostfildern, 2002, vol. II, no. 1705, illustrated p. 672
Stuttgart, Galerie Beatrix Wilhelm, Homo Pictor G. H. - Gottfried Honegger zum 70. Geburtstag, 1987, illustrated in colour n.p.
Reutlingen, Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, Willi Baumeister - Das Unbekannte in der Kunst, 1988/89, illustrated in colour n.p.