Sale: 571 / Day Sale, June 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 124001412
Lot 124001412
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124001412
Emil Schumacher
Albia, 1977.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 42,000 - 63,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Albia. 1977.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right. Titled, dated and inscribed with the dimensions verso on the stretcher. 130.5 x 96 cm (51.3 x 37.7 in). [AW].
• An outstanding, powerful work in the typical style of Art Informel.
• Schumacher liberated color from form, and line from figurative motifs.
• He participated in documenta II, III and 6 in Kassel in 1959, 1964 and 1977.
• Emil Schumacher's works are in the collections of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as well as in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
The work is registered at the Emil Schumacher Archive, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, under the inventory number “0/21”.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf (seit ca. 1984).
Private collection, Berlin (from the above).
EXHIBITION: Fritz Winter House, Ahlen, April 28 - May 31, 1979, cat. no. 5 (with an exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Emil Schumacher. Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, Galerie Merten Slominsky, Mühlheim, February 28 - April 18, 1980; Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, May 13 - June 28, 1980; Galerie István Schlégl, Zurich, November 21, 1980 - January 10, 1981, cat. no. 8.
Emil Schumacher, quoted from: Emil Schumacher. Farben sind Feste für die Augen. zum 100. Geburtstag, Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg 2012/13, p. 91.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right. Titled, dated and inscribed with the dimensions verso on the stretcher. 130.5 x 96 cm (51.3 x 37.7 in). [AW].
• An outstanding, powerful work in the typical style of Art Informel.
• Schumacher liberated color from form, and line from figurative motifs.
• He participated in documenta II, III and 6 in Kassel in 1959, 1964 and 1977.
• Emil Schumacher's works are in the collections of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as well as in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
The work is registered at the Emil Schumacher Archive, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, under the inventory number “0/21”.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf (seit ca. 1984).
Private collection, Berlin (from the above).
EXHIBITION: Fritz Winter House, Ahlen, April 28 - May 31, 1979, cat. no. 5 (with an exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Emil Schumacher. Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, Galerie Merten Slominsky, Mühlheim, February 28 - April 18, 1980; Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, May 13 - June 28, 1980; Galerie István Schlégl, Zurich, November 21, 1980 - January 10, 1981, cat. no. 8.
Emil Schumacher, quoted from: Emil Schumacher. Farben sind Feste für die Augen. zum 100. Geburtstag, Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg 2012/13, p. 91.
124001412
Emil Schumacher
Albia, 1977.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 42,000 - 63,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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