Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000459
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126000459
Wolfgang Paalen
Composition, 1933.
Oil on canvas, mounted on white-painted wood
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000459
Wolfgang Paalen
Composition, 1933.
Oil on canvas, mounted on white-painted wood
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Wolfgang Paalen
1905 - 1959
Composition. 1933.
Oil on canvas, mounted on white-painted wood.
Signed and dated on the reverse. 53 x 37 cm (20.8 x 14.5 in).
[AR].
• Between reality and imagination: Wolfgang Paalen’s magical worlds captivate with their mysterious figurations and abstractions.
• Beginning in 1932/33, he developed his distinctive, semi-figurative, biomorphic visual language in Paris.
• Works by the artist are in international museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, East Germany.
LITERATURE: Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen. Im Inneren des Wals, Monografie - Schriften - Oeuvrekatalog, Wien-New York 1999, CR no. 33.22 (illustrated on p. 283).
1905 - 1959
Composition. 1933.
Oil on canvas, mounted on white-painted wood.
Signed and dated on the reverse. 53 x 37 cm (20.8 x 14.5 in).
[AR].
• Between reality and imagination: Wolfgang Paalen’s magical worlds captivate with their mysterious figurations and abstractions.
• Beginning in 1932/33, he developed his distinctive, semi-figurative, biomorphic visual language in Paris.
• Works by the artist are in international museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, East Germany.
LITERATURE: Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen. Im Inneren des Wals, Monografie - Schriften - Oeuvrekatalog, Wien-New York 1999, CR no. 33.22 (illustrated on p. 283).
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