Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 424

 

424
Joseph Beuys
Zu Terremoto, 1982.
Etching and Pencil drawing
Estimate:
€ 600 / $ 648
Sold:
€ 2,750 / $ 2,970

(incl. surcharge)
Zu Terremoto. 1982.
Etching and Pencil drawing.
Schellmann 456 B. Signed and inscribed "a/p 5/20" in upper left. Verso once more signed, dated and inscribed with the dimensions. From an edition of 20 artist proofs. On Fabriano wove paper (with watermark). 16 x 12 cm (6.2 x 4.7 in). Sheet: 49,5 x 35,4 cm (19,4 x 13,9 in).
Printed by Sebaste Carella, Studio Bernalda (with blindstamp) and published by Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf.
• Visualization of the physical, psychological and social aftermath of the earthquake in the Mezzogiorno.
• For Beuys this concerted artist action bears potential for change
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PROVENANCE: Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf.
Private collection Germany (acquired from aforementioned in 1984).

EXHIBITION: Joseph Beuys: Wo ist Element 3?, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, March 26 – May 22, 2021.

After a terrible earthquake in the Mezzogiorno region on November 23, 1980, the gallery owner Lucio Amelio encouraged his artists to create works on the theme of "earthquakes", which were exhibited in the Villa Campolieto. In 1981 Beuys created the room “Terremoto in Palazzo” and the sculpture “Terremoto”, proceeds of which went to the left-wing group “Lotta Continua” to fund the newspaper of the same name. The painful physiognomies of the heads in chalk, which Beuys repeated in this present etching, can be found on one of the plates leaning against an old typesetting machine in the Italian printshop. [Eugen Blume]



424
Joseph Beuys
Zu Terremoto, 1982.
Etching and Pencil drawing
Estimate:
€ 600 / $ 648
Sold:
€ 2,750 / $ 2,970

(incl. surcharge)