Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000058
126000058
K.R.H. (d.i. Kurt R. Hoffmann) Sonderborg
Ascona, 23.3.1964, 22 h 49 - 23 h 25, 1964.
Oil tempera on paper and on canvas
Estimate:
€ 15,000 - 20,000
$ 17,550 - 23,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000058
K.R.H. (d.i. Kurt R. Hoffmann) Sonderborg
Ascona, 23.3.1964, 22 h 49 - 23 h 25, 1964.
Oil tempera on paper and on canvas
Estimate:
€ 15,000 - 20,000
$ 17,550 - 23,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
K.R.H. (d.i. Kurt R. Hoffmann) Sonderborg
1923 - 2008
Ascona, 23.3.1964, 22 h 49 - 23 h 25. 1964.
Oil tempera on paper and on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 107.5 x 69.7 cm (42.3 x 27.4 in). [AW].
• In this work, K.R.H. Sonderborg expands his color palette—which is otherwise limited to black and white—to include red.
• Exhibited several times shortly after its creation.
• Sonderborg participated in documenta II and III in 1959 and 1964, as well as in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1970.
• The artist’s works are among the most striking examples of the German Informel and can be found in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other places.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris.
Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris (with a gallery label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Bengt Olson Collection, Gothenburg.
Private collection, Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: K.R.H. Sonderborg. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Sept. 3–Oct. 3, 1965, cat. no. 36 (with an exhibition label on the reverse side of the stretcher).
Sonderborg. Ausstellung von Öltempera-Bildern und Zeichnungen, Galerie Stangl, Munich, June 3–July 23, 1966, cat. no. 5 (illustrated in black and white on p. 5).
K.R.H. Sonderborg, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Feb.–March 1977, cat. no. 20 (with an exhibition label on the reverse side of the stretcher).
K.R.H. Sonderborg, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Oct. 23–Dec. 4, 1977, cat. no. 92 (with an exhibition label on the reverse side of the stretcher).
1923 - 2008
Ascona, 23.3.1964, 22 h 49 - 23 h 25. 1964.
Oil tempera on paper and on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 107.5 x 69.7 cm (42.3 x 27.4 in). [AW].
• In this work, K.R.H. Sonderborg expands his color palette—which is otherwise limited to black and white—to include red.
• Exhibited several times shortly after its creation.
• Sonderborg participated in documenta II and III in 1959 and 1964, as well as in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1970.
• The artist’s works are among the most striking examples of the German Informel and can be found in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other places.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris.
Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris (with a gallery label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Bengt Olson Collection, Gothenburg.
Private collection, Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: K.R.H. Sonderborg. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Sept. 3–Oct. 3, 1965, cat. no. 36 (with an exhibition label on the reverse side of the stretcher).
Sonderborg. Ausstellung von Öltempera-Bildern und Zeichnungen, Galerie Stangl, Munich, June 3–July 23, 1966, cat. no. 5 (illustrated in black and white on p. 5).
K.R.H. Sonderborg, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Feb.–March 1977, cat. no. 20 (with an exhibition label on the reverse side of the stretcher).
K.R.H. Sonderborg, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Oct. 23–Dec. 4, 1977, cat. no. 92 (with an exhibition label on the reverse side of the stretcher).
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