Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 438

 

438
Fritz Winter
Mit Gelb und Rot, 1952.
Oil on board, laminated on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 14,850

(incl. surcharge)
Mit Gelb und Rot. 1952.
Oil on board, laminated on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. 50 x 70 cm (19.6 x 27.5 in). [JS].

• Early informal composition.
• Ever since he participated in documenta I (1955) Winter was regarded as the leading German representative of Informalism and post-war abstraction.
• Winter showed works in the USA in the 1950s, among others in two exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Maulberger, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from the above around 1992).

LITERATURE: Fritz Winter, Werke aus den Jahren 1949 bis 1956, catalog Marbach no. 147-581, Bern 1968, cat. no. 390 (with illu. in black-and-white).




438
Fritz Winter
Mit Gelb und Rot, 1952.
Oil on board, laminated on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 14,850

(incl. surcharge)