Sale: 513 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, Dec. 11. 2020 in Munich Lot 47

 

47
Fritz Winter
Mit zwei Rot, 1968.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,800
Sold:
€ 42,500 / $ 45,900

(incl. surcharge)
Mit zwei Rot. 1968.
Oil on canvas.
Not in Lohberg. Signed and dated in lower right. Verso signed, dated and titled. 90 x 80 cm (35.4 x 31.4 in).
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• Luminous composition, which gets its special tension from the juxtaposition of the two red color fields.
• Fine example from the transition from rectangular and serial pictures in the 1960s to the more monochrome compositions of the 1970s.
• For the first time on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.com).
• Winter is one of the leading representatives of German Informalism and abstract post-war modernism.
• Winter exhibited in America as early as in the 1950s and was represented in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Private collection Northern Germany (in 1983 acquired from the estate through Helga Gausling, Fritz-Winter-Haus, Ahlen), ever since family-owned.




47
Fritz Winter
Mit zwei Rot, 1968.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,800
Sold:
€ 42,500 / $ 45,900

(incl. surcharge)