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Otto WOLS (Berlin 1913 - Paris 1951)
The Comical Beast, circ…
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Otto WOLS (Berlin 1913 - Paris 1951)
The Comical Beast, circ…
See original version (French)
Estimate €8,000 - €12,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Otto WOLS (Berlin 1913 - Paris 1951)
The Comical Beast, circa 1939
Pen, black ink
33 x 26.5 cm
Signed lower right Wols
Bearing a dry seal lower right
Stamped on the back of the mounting sheet Succession Johannes Otto Wols 2006
A certificate from Dr Ewald Rathke will be given to the buyer.
Provenance
Former Otto Wols Collection, France
Former Gréty Wols Collection, France
Estate of Marc Johannes, France
Sale Otto Wols, Aponem / Maître Sophie Renard, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 June 2011, n° 93
Acquired at this sale by the current owner
Exhibitions:
Wols, Dessins- Aquarelles- Peintures 1932 - 1951, June - July 1974, Rennes, Musée de Beaux Arts, then Caen Musée des Beaux Arts July - September 1974, n°D4
Wols, Dessins- Aquarelles- Peintures 1932 - 1951, Galerie Beaubourg Paris, November - December 1974
Wols und die photographie, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, October 1978 - January 1979
Bibliography:
Shigeo Chiba, L'oeuvre de Wols, catalogue raisonné, Pars 1978, page 138
At the end of the 1940s, Georges Mathieu wrote in Au-delà du tachisme (1963): "Wols pulverised everything ... After Wols, everything has to be redone."
See original version (French)
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