Sale: 606 / Evening Sale, June 12. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000401
126000401
Robert Mangold
Four squares within a square (Light Blue), 1974.
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 300,000 - 400,000
$ 345,000 - 460,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000401
Robert Mangold
Four squares within a square (Light Blue), 1974.
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 300,000 - 400,000
$ 345,000 - 460,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Robert Mangold
1937
Four squares within a square (Light Blue). 1974.
Acrylic and pencil on canvas.
Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with dimensions in inches on the reverse side of the canvas. 183 x 183 cm (72 x 72 in).
With a label of the “Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York” on the reverse. [AR].
• “Four squares within a square”: Minimalism at its purest!
• Iconic work by the American pioneer of radically reduced geometric painting.
• Exhibited at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, alongside sculptures by James Reineking, as early as 1980.
• Part of the same private collection for 47 years.
• His works from the 1970s have fetched the to date highest hammer prices on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Other paintings based on the “Four squares within a square” principle from 1974 are part of important American museum collections, such as the Buffalo Art Museum, Buffalo, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf/Berlin.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 1979).
EXHIBITION: Reineking-Mangold, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, January 27-March 9, 1980 (illustrated in color in the first part of the exhibition catalog "Robert Mangold - Gemälde" on p. 23).
LITERATURE: Artforum February 1979, page 42 (illustrated).
1937
Four squares within a square (Light Blue). 1974.
Acrylic and pencil on canvas.
Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with dimensions in inches on the reverse side of the canvas. 183 x 183 cm (72 x 72 in).
With a label of the “Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York” on the reverse. [AR].
• “Four squares within a square”: Minimalism at its purest!
• Iconic work by the American pioneer of radically reduced geometric painting.
• Exhibited at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, alongside sculptures by James Reineking, as early as 1980.
• Part of the same private collection for 47 years.
• His works from the 1970s have fetched the to date highest hammer prices on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Other paintings based on the “Four squares within a square” principle from 1974 are part of important American museum collections, such as the Buffalo Art Museum, Buffalo, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf/Berlin.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 1979).
EXHIBITION: Reineking-Mangold, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, January 27-March 9, 1980 (illustrated in color in the first part of the exhibition catalog "Robert Mangold - Gemälde" on p. 23).
LITERATURE: Artforum February 1979, page 42 (illustrated).
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