Bidspirit auction | Walter Dexel: Untitled


Walter Dexel: Untitled - DEXEL, WALTER 1890 Munich - 1973 Brunswick Title: Untitled. Subtitle: From the series: Scheibe im Quadrat. Date: 1969. Technique: Tempera and India ink on card. Measurement: 64,5 x 50cm; Display dimension: 33,5 x 33,5cm. Notation: Signed and dated lower left: W DEXEL 69. Verso additionally once more signed and dated: WDEXEL 69. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. The composition was followed by a screen print in 1970 (cf. Vitt, Walter (ed.): Walter Dexel - Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik 1915 bis 1973, Cologne 1998 (2nd ed.), cat. rais. no. 36). Provenance: - Artist's estate - Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions: - Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1973 - Kestner Society, Hanover, 1974 - Landesmuseum Münster, 1979 - Bremen Art Gallery, 1990 Literature: - Wöbkemeier, Ruth/Der Kunstverein Bremen (ed.): Walter Dexel (1890-1973) - Catalogue raisonné. Paintings, reverse glass paintings, gouaches, watercolours, collages, oil studies, Designs for stage sets, Heidelberg 1995, cat. rais. no. 510, ill. - Exhib. cat. Walter Dexel - Bilder, Grafik, Angewandte Kunst, Kunstmuseum Bonn 1973, cat. no. 117 (titled here: white half-pane on the left) - Exhib. cat. Walter Dexel, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover 1974, cat. no. 194 (here titled: white half-pane on the left) - Exhib. cat. Walter Dexel - Paintings, watercolours, collages, neon signs, typography, Landesmuseum Münster, 1979, cat. no. 221 (titled here: white half-pane on the left) - Exhib. cat. Walter Dexel: Image, Sign, Space, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1990, cat. no. 108 - Exciting composition in nuanced colours - Dexel's consistently purist forms and strict compositions earned him an important position within the Constructivist movement - Part of many important retrospective exhibitions of the artist Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Germany: 52,94 Euro plus 10,06 Euro VAT EU: 79,83 Euro plus 15,17 Euro VAT Worldwide: 138,66 Euro plus 26,34 Euro VAT additional shipping insurance Explanations to the Catalogue Willi Baumeister Germany ZEN 49 Abstraction Modern Art Post War 1940s Craftman's frame Shapes Painting Oil Literary theme