Willi Baumeister: Monturi, Diskus (mit Segmenten)

Willi Baumeister: Monturi, Diskus (mit Segmenten)
BAUMEISTER, WILLI
Stuttgart 1889 - 1955

Title: Monturi, Diskus (mit Segmenten).
Date: 1954.
Technique: Oil, synthetic resin and sand on fibreboard.
Measurement: 185 x 129cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Baumeister 3 54. Verso bottom equipped with stamp: atelier willi baumeister.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.

Provenance:
- Estate Willi Baumeister
- Galerie Michael Hertz, Bremen
- Corporate collection Germany (in 1981 acquired from the previous owner)

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1978
- Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1978/79
- Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1979 (label)

Literature:
- Beye, Peter/Baumeister, Felicitas: Willi Baumeister - Werkkatalog der Gemälde II, Ostfildern Ruit 2002, cat. rais. no. 2004, ill. (here differntly titled: Monturi mit Segmenten)
- Grohmann, Will: Willi Baumann - Leben und Werk, Cologne 1963, cat. rais. no. 1546, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Baumeister, Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1978, cat. no. 42
- Exhib. cat. Willi Baumeister, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1978/79, p. 29, cat. no. 21, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Willi Baumeister 1945-1955, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1979, p. 137, cat. no. 51

- Baumeister's work decisively advanced the further development of abstract art after 1945
- Cheerful composition with high poetic expressiveness
- Expression of Baumeister's exploration of the unknown and incomprehensible

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This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1)

Explanations to the Catalogue

Willi Baumeister
Germany
ZEN 49
Abstraction
Modern Art
1950s
Craftman's frame
Shapes
Painting
Mixed media
Abstract