Sale: 425 / Post War / Contemporary Art, June 12./13. 2015 in Munich Lot 337

 

337
Willi Baumeister
Moby Dick, 1950.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Sold:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400

(incl. surcharge)
Moby Dick. 1950.
Silkscreen in colors.
Spielmann/Baumeister 175. Signed, numbered "II/III/50" and inscribed "Privatdruck". Private print aside from an edition of 50 copies Exemplaren. On light board. 46 x 54 cm (18.1 x 21.2 in). Sheet: 57,5 x 64,8 cm (22,6 x 25,5 in).
Printed by Luitpold Domberger, Atelier Poldi Domberger Stuttgart (verso with truncated label).
After the painting of the same name from the same year (cf. Beye/Baumeister 2002, no. 1639). [KP/EH].

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann und Willi Baumeister, Das Graphische Werk, Hamburg 1963-1966, released in 1972, no. 6.
Willi Baumeister zum 100. Geburtstag. Die Serigraphien, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, edited by Brigitte Reinhardt, Stuttgart 1989, no. 6.

To Willi Baumeister it was almost a principle to make graphic works of his paintings. Baumeister had become acquainted with silkreen printing only in 1948. In 1950 he made first sheets in cooperation with Luitpold Domberger.



337
Willi Baumeister
Moby Dick, 1950.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Sold:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400

(incl. surcharge)