Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 408

 

408
Joseph Beuys
Auflistung, 1968.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800

(incl. surcharge)
Auflistung. 1968.
Mixed media.
Signed and dated. On typewriter paper by M.-K.Papier (with watermark). 30 x 21 cm (11.8 x 8.2 in), size of sheet.
This presumably is a list of works from the collection of Karl Ströher. [EH].
• List with reference to the Collection Ströher.
• Energetic emphasis of the listing through the drawn symbols.
• A drawing of a documentation character
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Germany (acquired directly from the artist).

EXHIBITION: Joseph Beuys: Wo ist Element 3?, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, March 26 – May 22, 2021.

Lists and enumerations occur regularly in Beuys' work and he treated them as independent drawings. This sheet from 1968 is either a sheet from the list of works in the exhibition “BEUYS” at the Städtisches Museum in Mönchengladbach in autumn 1967, which was acquired in its entirety by the collector Karl Ströher, today the world-famous “Block Beuys“ at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, or a list for the exhibition of the Ströher Collection in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Basel in 1969. The date next to the signature rather suggests the Mönchengladbach exhibition. The over-painted lists are quite common in Beuys' work. The dark shapes fill the interspaces so that the words remain legible. This way the pictorial elements with their indeterminate energy complement the rationally founded list of works that might have been used as, for instance, a list of objects compiled in preparation of a transport. [Eugen Blume]



408
Joseph Beuys
Auflistung, 1968.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800

(incl. surcharge)