20th Century Art: A Different Perspective

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Property from a Private Collection

Josip Vaništa

Black Line

Lot Closed

November 9, 01:08 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection


Josip Vaništa 

Croatian

1924 - 2018

Black Line


signed Vaništa on the stretcher; signed twice with initials JV on the reverse

oil on canvas

Unframed: 140 by 180cm., 55 by 71in.

Framed: 142.5 by 182.5cm., 56 by 72in.


Painted in 1964.

Vladimir Macura (purchased from the artist)

Purchased from the above in 2013 by the present owner

Marinko Sudac, Gorgona, Zagreb, 2018, no. 520, catalogued & illustrated (as Crna linija na sivoj povrsini)

Zagreb, Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Josip Vaništa, 18 March - 4 April 1965, exh. cat., no. 20 (catalogued as XII).

Zagreb, The Modern Gallery - National Museum of Modern Art, Kallay Collection: Missing Genius, 2018, exh. cat., pp. 58 - 59 (catalogued & illustrated)

Zadar National Museum, The Kallay Collection: From Black Curtain to Black Line, 2019, exh. cat., p.41 (illustrated) & p. 54 (catalogued)

Zagreb, The Modern Gallery - National Museum of Modern Art, on loan 2020 - 2023 (inventory number MGP-1169)