Sale: 448 / Post War II, June 09. 2017 in Munich Lot 448

 

448
Walter Stöhrer
"Immer das Verlangen, nie Notwendigkeit, keine Flamme, keine Wolke, aber Flügel, Zähne und Klauen", 1990.
Acrylic
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Sold:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400

(incl. surcharge)
"Immer das Verlangen, nie Notwendigkeit, keine Flamme, keine Wolke, aber Flügel, Zähne und Klauen". 1990.
Acrylic, color chalks and India ink over etching.
Lower center signed, dated and decicated. On wove paper by Hahnemühle (with watermark). 78 x 53 cm (30.7 x 20.8 in), the full sheet.
Right margin and verso with a text written by the artist and a quote from Paul Éluard as title. Verso once more signed, dated, titled and with direction arrow.
Overpainted trial proof of the etching "Caspar I", released by the 'Schleswig-Holsteinische Kunstverein' as annual bonus on occasion of a Stöhrer exhibition at the Kiel Kunsthalle in 1990. (Cf. Meyer zu Eissen/Dethloff 1990.14) [CB].

We are grateful to Mrs Forstbauer, Walter-Stöhrer-Foundation, Schleswig, for her kind support in cataloging this lot. The work will be included into the forthcoming catlog raisonné of works on paper with the interims number P90.72.

PROVENANCE: Collection Prof. Dr. Jens Christian and Angelika Jensen, Kiel/Hamburg (present from the artist).




448
Walter Stöhrer
"Immer das Verlangen, nie Notwendigkeit, keine Flamme, keine Wolke, aber Flügel, Zähne und Klauen", 1990.
Acrylic
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Sold:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400

(incl. surcharge)