Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001051
Lot 125001051 
Raumbeispiel
125001051
Hans Hartung
T1949-13, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 140,000 - 200,000
$ 162,400 - 232,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
T1949-13. 1949.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated "2-49" in the lower right. Titled "T 49-13" on the reverse of the stretcher. 50 x 61 cm (19.6 x 24 in).
• An early piece of European Informalism, characterized by an unmistakable artistic signature and gestural spontaneity.
• From the groundbreaking series of paintings with numbers as titles, which Hartung started in 1948 and continued throughout his life—a key work of European Post-War Modernism.
• Through the condensation of light and shadow, dynamic power and subtle delicacy, as well as warm and cold colors, Hartung unfolds an exciting, multi-layered pictorial structure.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, dedicated a solo exhibition to the artist as early as 1975.
• Part of an important German private collection for over four decades.
The work is registered in the archives of the Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergman, Antibes, and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (with the label on the reverse of the stretcher, bearing the title, year, and catalog number “49”).
Mathilda Goldschmidt de Rothschild Collection, Lausanne.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the aforementioned in 1983, Sotheby’s, London).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's, London, Modern and Contemporary Art 1945-1983, December 8, 1983, lot 666, p. 71 (illustrated in color).
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated "2-49" in the lower right. Titled "T 49-13" on the reverse of the stretcher. 50 x 61 cm (19.6 x 24 in).
• An early piece of European Informalism, characterized by an unmistakable artistic signature and gestural spontaneity.
• From the groundbreaking series of paintings with numbers as titles, which Hartung started in 1948 and continued throughout his life—a key work of European Post-War Modernism.
• Through the condensation of light and shadow, dynamic power and subtle delicacy, as well as warm and cold colors, Hartung unfolds an exciting, multi-layered pictorial structure.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, dedicated a solo exhibition to the artist as early as 1975.
• Part of an important German private collection for over four decades.
The work is registered in the archives of the Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergman, Antibes, and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (with the label on the reverse of the stretcher, bearing the title, year, and catalog number “49”).
Mathilda Goldschmidt de Rothschild Collection, Lausanne.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the aforementioned in 1983, Sotheby’s, London).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's, London, Modern and Contemporary Art 1945-1983, December 8, 1983, lot 666, p. 71 (illustrated in color).
125001051
Hans Hartung
T1949-13, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 140,000 - 200,000
$ 162,400 - 232,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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