Lot 11 
11
Henri Michaux
Peinture à l'encre de Chine, 1964/65.
Brush and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 16,520 Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 29,500 (incl. surcharge)
Peinture à l'encre de Chine. 1964/65.
Brush and India ink drawing.
Bottom right monogrammed. Signed, dated (illegible) and inscribed "Mouvements" and "Exhibition at Montréal" on the reverse. On firm wove paper by BFK Rives (with watermark). 75 x 105 cm (29.5 x 41.3 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• From the important series of the "Encre de Chine" pictures.
• Large-size document of his fascination for Asian calligraphy, particularly for Chinese ideograms.
• Other works from this series are in possession of, among others, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main, the London Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné currently in preparation by Micheline Phankim, Rainer M. Mason and Franck Leibovici. We are grateful for the kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris (with the inventory number "m 152" on the reverse).
Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen (acquired from the above in 1974).
Private collection Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1988).
EXHIBITION: Henri Michaux, Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen, July 7 - September 7, 1974.
Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen, June 1979.
Brush and India ink drawing.
Bottom right monogrammed. Signed, dated (illegible) and inscribed "Mouvements" and "Exhibition at Montréal" on the reverse. On firm wove paper by BFK Rives (with watermark). 75 x 105 cm (29.5 x 41.3 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• From the important series of the "Encre de Chine" pictures.
• Large-size document of his fascination for Asian calligraphy, particularly for Chinese ideograms.
• Other works from this series are in possession of, among others, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main, the London Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné currently in preparation by Micheline Phankim, Rainer M. Mason and Franck Leibovici. We are grateful for the kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris (with the inventory number "m 152" on the reverse).
Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen (acquired from the above in 1974).
Private collection Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1988).
EXHIBITION: Henri Michaux, Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen, July 7 - September 7, 1974.
Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen, June 1979.
11
Henri Michaux
Peinture à l'encre de Chine, 1964/65.
Brush and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 16,520 Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 29,500 (incl. surcharge)
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