Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 125001022
125001022
Emil Schumacher
Verni Mou, 1958.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 92,000 - 138,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
125001022
Emil Schumacher
Verni Mou, 1958.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 92,000 - 138,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
Verni Mou. 1958.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the upper right. Signed and inscribed with the artist's address, as well as "oben" (top) and a directin arrow on the reverse. 131 x 70 cm (51.5 x 27.5 in).
• A large early work by the leading representative of German Art Informel.
• Key work: “Verni Mou” was Schumacher’s contribution to the 29th Venice Biennale in the year it was created.
• A fascinating fusion of color fields and graphic dynamics, dense paint application and scratching techniques, dark tones, and luminosity.
• Formerly part of the renowned Carlo Monzino Collection (1933–1996), Milan; in the 1960s and 1970s, Monzino was a friend and patron of Andy Warhol.
• Part of a distinguished private collection in Berlin for the past 40 years.
• Comparable works from the 1950s are part of major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Van de Loo, Munich (1958).
Carlo Monzino Collection, Milan (since 1961 the latest).
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 1985, Sotheby's, London).
EXHIBITION: German Pavilion, 29th Venice Biennale, Venice, June 14–October 19, 1958, cat. no. 321 (on a barely legible label on the stretcher).
La pittura moderna straniera nelle collezioni private italiane, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, March 4–April 9, 1961 (with the exhibition label on the stretcher).
Emil Schumacher, Falchi Arte Moderna, Milan, from March 15, 1975.
LITERATURE: La Biennale di Venezia, 29th International Art Biennale, Venice 1958, p. 260, cat. no. 48.
Sotheby's, London, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Dec. 5, 1985, lot 371 (illustrated).
1912 - 1999
Verni Mou. 1958.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the upper right. Signed and inscribed with the artist's address, as well as "oben" (top) and a directin arrow on the reverse. 131 x 70 cm (51.5 x 27.5 in).
• A large early work by the leading representative of German Art Informel.
• Key work: “Verni Mou” was Schumacher’s contribution to the 29th Venice Biennale in the year it was created.
• A fascinating fusion of color fields and graphic dynamics, dense paint application and scratching techniques, dark tones, and luminosity.
• Formerly part of the renowned Carlo Monzino Collection (1933–1996), Milan; in the 1960s and 1970s, Monzino was a friend and patron of Andy Warhol.
• Part of a distinguished private collection in Berlin for the past 40 years.
• Comparable works from the 1950s are part of major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Van de Loo, Munich (1958).
Carlo Monzino Collection, Milan (since 1961 the latest).
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 1985, Sotheby's, London).
EXHIBITION: German Pavilion, 29th Venice Biennale, Venice, June 14–October 19, 1958, cat. no. 321 (on a barely legible label on the stretcher).
La pittura moderna straniera nelle collezioni private italiane, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, March 4–April 9, 1961 (with the exhibition label on the stretcher).
Emil Schumacher, Falchi Arte Moderna, Milan, from March 15, 1975.
LITERATURE: La Biennale di Venezia, 29th International Art Biennale, Venice 1958, p. 260, cat. no. 48.
Sotheby's, London, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Dec. 5, 1985, lot 371 (illustrated).
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