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Joannis Avramidis
Kopf zu "Modellierte Figur", 1958.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,500 Sold:
€ 11,430 / $ 12,001 (incl. surcharge)
Kopf zu "Modellierte Figur". 1958.
Bronze with greenish patina.
31 x 25 x 18 cm (12.2 x 9.8 x 7 in).
[KT].
• With his sculptures Avramidis occupies an unmistakable and highly individual position in 20th century sculpting.
• As of the 1960s he showed works in international shows like the 31st Venice Biennial, the documenta III (1964) and documenta 6 (1977)
• In 1973 he was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize For Visual Art.
• Avramidis' works likewise follow figuration and abstraction; among his idols were sculptors like Constantin Brancusi and Wilhelm Lehmbruck
• In 2017, a year after his death, the Leopold Museum in Vienna honored him with a grand retrospective exhibition.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Brusberg, Hanover.
Company collection BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover (acquired from the above).
LITERATURE: Joannis Avramidis, "Agora". Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 1953 bis 1988, ex. cat. Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, 1989, with the sculpture "Modellierte Figur" on the cover and on pp. 16, 23 (with illu.).
Michael Semff, Joannis Avramidis, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Munich 2005, the sculpture "Modellierte Figur", on illu. 119/120.
In good condition. Irregular patine owing to making and technique.
Bronze with greenish patina.
31 x 25 x 18 cm (12.2 x 9.8 x 7 in).
[KT].
• With his sculptures Avramidis occupies an unmistakable and highly individual position in 20th century sculpting.
• As of the 1960s he showed works in international shows like the 31st Venice Biennial, the documenta III (1964) and documenta 6 (1977)
• In 1973 he was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize For Visual Art.
• Avramidis' works likewise follow figuration and abstraction; among his idols were sculptors like Constantin Brancusi and Wilhelm Lehmbruck
• In 2017, a year after his death, the Leopold Museum in Vienna honored him with a grand retrospective exhibition.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Brusberg, Hanover.
Company collection BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover (acquired from the above).
LITERATURE: Joannis Avramidis, "Agora". Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 1953 bis 1988, ex. cat. Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, 1989, with the sculpture "Modellierte Figur" on the cover and on pp. 16, 23 (with illu.).
Michael Semff, Joannis Avramidis, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Munich 2005, the sculpture "Modellierte Figur", on illu. 119/120.
In good condition. Irregular patine owing to making and technique.
49
Joannis Avramidis
Kopf zu "Modellierte Figur", 1958.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,500 Sold:
€ 11,430 / $ 12,001 (incl. surcharge)
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