Sol. 1949.
Charcoal, pastel and oil chalk.
Ponert 1954. Signed and dated lower right. With stamp "atelier willi baumeister" on verso. On creme laid paper by Ingres (with watermark). 31,5 x 48,6 cm (12,4 x 19,1 in), size of sheet.

PROVENANCE: From artist's estate.
Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich (1960).
Collection Dr. Thiele, Cologne.
Private collection North-Rhine Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich 1960, cat. no. 22.

Willi Baumeister‘s oeuvre of drawings shows an artistic development coined by abstraction and enigmatic contents. His graphic sheets "[..] possess an array of amorphous-figurative archaic relief structures, in dialog, landscape-like, hovering, in motion, 'metaphysic‘, grave, mysterious, primeval. History and spirituality of mankind, as memento in a historic situation shaken in its foundation. The artist‘ late period of creation was coined by this clandestine yet euphoric process of creation." (Transl. of quote after Dietmar J. Ponert, Willi Baumeister, Stuttgart 1988, p. 28). [KP].