Sale: 479 / Classics of the 20th Century I, Dec. 08. 2018 in Munich Lot 807

 

807
Gerhard Hoehme
Feuervogel, 1983.
Acrylic on canvas with polyethylene strings
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,500

(incl. surcharge)
Feuervogel. 1983.
Acrylic on canvas with polyethylene strings.
Hoehme 83-05. Lower left signed and dated. Verso signed, dated, titled and inscribed. 160 x 160 cm (62.9 x 62.9 in). [JS].

PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland.

EXHIBITION: Gerhard Hoehme, Galerie Metta Linde, Lübeck 1991.
Nach 45`. Malerei und Skulptur in Deutschland, Galerie Neher, Essen 1993, illu. on p. 33. (with label on stretcher).
Der andere Blick, Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin 1997 (with label on stretcher).
Galerie Thomas, Munich (verso with the label).

LITERATURE: Gerhard Hoehme. Bilder - Objekte. Paul Celan. Gedichte, published by Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin 1986, illu. on p. 23.
Georg-W. Költzsch (editor.), Deutsches Informel. Symposion Informel, Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin 1986, illu. on p. 215.
Margarete Hoehme und Manfred de la Motte (editor), Gerhard Hoehme, Galerie Nothelfer, Pentagramm, vol. 4, Berlin 1990, illu. on p. 19.
"Pictures are multi-level visual equations with factors / vectors / tensors / sensors - their colors are place values / signals / relations / energies / moments in time."
Hoehme 1968, quote after: Tayfun Belgin (editor), Kunst des Informel. Malerei und Skulptur nach 1952, Cologne 1997, p. 117.




807
Gerhard Hoehme
Feuervogel, 1983.
Acrylic on canvas with polyethylene strings
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,500

(incl. surcharge)