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Abstract art

Abstract art is a form of artistic expression that set in at the beginning of the 20th century. Painters and sculptors increasingly distanced themselves from a representational approach to nature as such, instead composing their works of non-representational forms or forms that only suggested objects. Abstract art is also called "non-representational art" or "absolute painting". Abstract painting soon followed abstract sculpture but did not go so far. Pioneering abstract painters are, among others, M. K. Čiurlionis, a Lithuanian composer and painter, to whom the first entirely abstract work (1904) is attributed; the French artist Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (1879-1953) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), a native of Russia. Picabia and Kandinsky each painted their first abstract pictures according to their own standards in 1911. Kandinsky, however, presumably slightly backdated his picture. Other leading exponents of abstract art are the Russian Mikhail Larianov (1881-1964); Robert Delaunay (1885-1941), a French painter who was an early Cubist before moving on to entirely abstract painting; the Czech artist František Kupka (1871-1957) and the German-Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940). Early major abstract works in sculpture were produced by the sculptor Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964) and the British artist Henry Moore (1898-1986).
 

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Chadwick, Lynn

not available

Sale 343 - Dec. 04, 08
Lot 100801363 - in 52 days
Bronze 1970
40,000 EUR / 54,800 $
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Mappenwerk

Lynn Mappenwerk - Jean Cassou: Vingt-deux poèmes

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 914 - in 11 days
Lithograph 1971
18,000 EUR / 24,660 $
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Rauch, Neo

Neo Rauch - Männchen vor Industrielandschaft III

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 994 - in 11 days
Oil on fibreboard 1988
18,000 EUR / 24,660 $
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Klein, Yves

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Sale 343 - Dec. 04, 08
Lot 410805822 - in 52 days
Silkscreen 1961
18,000 EUR / 24,660 $
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Lüpertz, Markus

Markus Lüpertz - Ohne Titel (Parsifal)

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 910 - in 11 days
Oil on panel 1993
15,000 EUR / 20,550 $
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Twombly, Cy

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Sale 343 - Dec. 04, 08
Lot 100801948 - in 52 days
Offset lithograph in colours 1970
15,000 EUR / 20,550 $
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Boetti

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Sale 343 - Dec. 04, 08
Lot 410805812 - in 52 days
Pencil 1992
15,000 EUR / 20,550 $
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Burri, Alberto

Alberto Burri - Serigrafie (Serie di sei tavole)

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 668 - in 11 days
Silkscreen in colours 1973
14,000 EUR / 19,180 $
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Schwarzer, B.

Bernd Schwarzer - Flammenbild (-Gold-Rot-Schwarz-) Deutschlandbild (Vulkan)

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 1040 - in 11 days
Oil on canvas 1986
10,000 EUR / 13,700 $
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Dahmen

Karl Fred Dahmen - Bremer Brief

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 693 - in 11 days
Mixed media 1965
10,000 EUR / 13,700 $
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Bissier, Julius

Julius Bissier - 21. Aug. 59 Q

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 31 - in 11 days
Egg and oil tempera 1959
10,000 EUR / 13,700 $
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Hirst, Damien

Damien Hirst - Doxylamine

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 793 - in 11 days
Etching and aquatint in colours 2007
8,500 EUR / 11,645 $
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Zimmer, Bernd

Bernd Zimmer - Sonnenflecken

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 1159 - in 11 days
Acrylic on canvas 1992
8,000 EUR / 10,960 $
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Brodwolf, J.

Jürgen Brodwolf - Ohne Titel (Die 12)

Sale 343 - Dec. 04, 08
Lot 410804088 - in 52 days
Oil on canvas 1970
8,000 EUR / 10,960 $
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Nay

Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Sechs Aquatinten - Über den Menschen

Sale 347 - Oct. 24/25., 08
Lot 953 - in 11 days
Etching and aquatint in colours 1965
7,000 EUR / 9,590 $
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Richter, G.

Sale 290 - May 14, 04
Lot 242
Oil on canvas 1988
552,000 EUR / 756,240 $
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Soulages, P.

Sale 316 - June 12, 07
Lot 397
Oil on canvas 1981
247,800 EUR / 339,486 $
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Baumeister, W.

Sale 298 - Dec. 05, 05
Lot 301
Oil 1947
239,850 EUR / 328,594 $
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Soulages, P.

Sale 330 - Dec. 05, 07
Lot 453
Oil on canvas 1977
180,000 EUR / 246,600 $
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Soulages, P.

Sale 306 - Dec. 05, 06
Lot 348
Bronze 1975
163,800 EUR / 224,406 $
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Fontana, Lucio

Sale 291 - Dec. 07, 04
Lot 299
Water-tempera 1964
155,250 EUR / 212,692 $
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Kline, Franz

Sale 316 - June 12, 07
Lot 347.10
Brush and India ink drawing 1960
140,400 EUR / 192,348 $
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Winter, Fritz

Sale 300 - June 02, 06
Lot 115
Oil on canvas 1953
128,700 EUR / 176,319 $
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Topp, Arnold

Sale 315 - June 12, 07
Lot 141
Oil 1918
114,000 EUR / 156,180 $
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Jorn, Asger

Sale 290 - May 14, 04
Lot 260
Oil on canvas 1958
103,500 EUR / 141,795 $
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