Sale: 513 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, Dec. 11. 2020 in Munich Lot 51

 

51
Fritz Winter
Berührung mit Rot, 1966.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

(incl. surcharge)
Berührung mit Rot. 1966.
Oil on canvas.
Lohberg 2569. Lower right signed and dated. Verso signed, dated and titled. 60 x 70 cm (23.6 x 27.5 in).

• Strong composition, dominated by a bright red, from the series of rectangular and serial pictures.
• For the first time on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.com).
• Part of a German private collection since 1974. - Winter is one of the leading representatives of German Informalism and abstract post-war modernism.
• Winter exhibited in America as early as in the 1950s and was represented in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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PROVENANCE: Galerie Walter Schüler, Berlin.
Private collection Germany (acquired from aforementioned in 1974, ever since family-owned).




51
Fritz Winter
Berührung mit Rot, 1966.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

(incl. surcharge)