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Willi Baumeister: Mit dem Ungeheuer Chumbaba - BAUMEISTER, WILLI Stuttgart 1889 - 1955 Title: Mit dem Ungeheuer Chumbaba. Date: 1947. Technique: Oil, synthetic resin, putty and coloured chalk on fibre. Measurement: 44 x 53cm. Notation: Signed and dated upper right: Baumeister 4.47. Additionally on verso illegibly inscribed and signed. Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame. Provenance: - Dr Gertz Collection, Karlsruhe - Maria Tannenbaum Collection, New York - Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich - Private collection Düsseldorf - Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions: - Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen 1973 Literature: - Beye, Peter/Baumeister, Felicitas: Willi Baumeister - Werkkatalog der Gemälde II, Ostfildern Ruit 2002, cat. rais. no. 1176, ill. - Grohmann, Will: Willi Baumann - Life and Work, Cologne 1963, cat. rais. no. 849, ill. - Exhib. cat. Willi Baumeister - Paintings and Drawings from the Years 1909-1955, Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen 1973, cat. no. 14 - Relief painting on the theme of the Gilgamesh Epic, a Samian tale (2,600 BC) - The symbolic, archaic forms and figures, the earthy tones and the relief-like structure are characteristic of Baumeister's pictorial invention of the immediate post-war period - The Epic of Gilgamesh is significant for Baumeister as a parable of human life Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction.   This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Willi Baumeister Germany ZEN 49 Abstraction Modern Art 1950s Craftman's frame Abstract Painting Oil