Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 583

 

583
Norbert Schwontkowski
Taiga brennt, 2006.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 34,775

(incl. surcharge)
Taiga brennt. 2006.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated on verso of the canvas. Stretcher and frame inscribed with the work number "NS/M 542". 130 x 150 cm (51.1 x 59 in). [CH].

• Part of a North Rhine-Westphalian private collection for 15 years.
• In 2020/21 alone Schwontkowski's works featured in exhibition at Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst in Bremen, in the retrospective "Some of My Secrets" at Kunsthalle Bremen, at Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Gemeentemuseum The Hague, as well as in the solo show "Norbert Schwontkowski. Fünf Frauen in Japan" at Neues Museum, Nuremberg, zu sehen.
• Works by the artist are in the collections of Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, and Museum Folkwang, Essen
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PROVENANCE: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (with a gallery label on the stretcher).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from aforementioned in 2007).




583
Norbert Schwontkowski
Taiga brennt, 2006.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 34,775

(incl. surcharge)