an image of a piece of paper with writing on it
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733 - Modern and Contemporary Art German Post-War Modernism Gaul, …
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Estimate €400 - €600
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Modern and Contemporary Art German Post-War Modernism Gaul, Winfred Fragment of a manuscript floating in space. 1983. Wax crayon and ink on vellum. 44 x 65.5 cm. Signed, dated and titled. Mounted with spot mounting beneath the passe-partout. – Slight studio marks on the reverse. Overall, very good condition. This work combines two of the central visual motifs that have permeated Gaul’s oeuvre since its inception: the gesture of writing and the fragment as a vehicle of meaning. On a glued-on, irregularly torn piece of paper, Gaul creates a calligraphic movement in black and white that oscillates between writing and gesture, recalling his early *Poèmes Visibles* of the late 1950s. A bright blue line running through the pasted-on fragment and continuing down onto the sheet beneath it on the main page links the collage and the background into a single, continuous movement, lending the sheet a cosmic dynamism. Wax crayon and ink on vellum. Signed, dated and titled. Partially mounted beneath the passe-partout. - Slight studio marks on the reverse. Overall, in very good condition. - This sheet brings together two of the central visual motifs that have run through Gaul’s work since its inception: the gesture of writing and the fragment as a vehicle of meaning. On a glued-on, irregularly torn piece of paper, Gaul creates a calligraphic movement in black and white that oscillates between writing and gesture, recalling his early *Poèmes Visibles* of the late 1950s. A bright blue line running through the pasted-on fragment and continuing down onto the sheet beneath it on the main page links the collage and the background into a single, continuous movement, lending the work a cosmic dynamism.
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Auction time 07/11/2026 at 11:00 AM
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