Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 507

 

507
Fritz Winter
Begrenzung durch grau und weiß, 1954.
Oil on board, originally laminated on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 14,850

(incl. surcharge)
Begrenzung durch grau und weiß. 1954.
Oil on board, originally laminated on canvas.
Not in Lohberg. Signed and dated in lower right. Verso with hand-written title. 74.5 x 100 cm (29.3 x 39.3 in).
[JS].
• Balanced large-size composition from the artist's early informal period of creation.
• The art dealer Henry Kleemann showed several Winter solo exhibitions at his New Yorker gallery as of 1954 and was largely responsible for the artist's early popularity in the U.S.A.
• After his participation in documenta I (1955) Winter became one of the leading representatives of German Informalism and post war abstraction.
• In the 1950s Winter showed works in several exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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PROVENANCE: Kleemann Gallery, New York (with the label on the stretcher).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.




507
Fritz Winter
Begrenzung durch grau und weiß, 1954.
Oil on board, originally laminated on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 14,850

(incl. surcharge)