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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Otto Freundlich (1878-1943)
Komposition
Details
Otto Freundlich (1878-1943)
Komposition
signed with the initial 'F' (lower right); signed with the initials, signed, dated and inscribed 'O.F. Otto Freundlich Paris 1938' (on the support)
gouache on board
image: 19 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (50 x 40 cm.)
board: 24 7/8 x 18 ½ in. (63 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1938
Komposition
signed with the initial 'F' (lower right); signed with the initials, signed, dated and inscribed 'O.F. Otto Freundlich Paris 1938' (on the support)
gouache on board
image: 19 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (50 x 40 cm.)
board: 24 7/8 x 18 ½ in. (63 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1938
Provenance
Fernand Graindorge, Liège.
Private collection, Germany, circa 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Private collection, Germany, circa 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Dégand, Langage et signification de la peinture, Paris, 1956, p. 133.
G. Aust, 'Otto Freundlich, Aus Anlass einer Ausstellung im Wallraff-Richartz-Museum in Köln', in Deutsche Zeitung und Wirschaftszeitung, Stuttgart & Cologne, 2 June 1960.
J. Heusinger von Waldegg, Otto Freundlich: Monographie mit Dokumentation und Werkverzeichnis, Bonn, 1978, no. 193, p. 92 (illustrated p. 182).
G. Aust, 'Otto Freundlich, Aus Anlass einer Ausstellung im Wallraff-Richartz-Museum in Köln', in Deutsche Zeitung und Wirschaftszeitung, Stuttgart & Cologne, 2 June 1960.
J. Heusinger von Waldegg, Otto Freundlich: Monographie mit Dokumentation und Werkverzeichnis, Bonn, 1978, no. 193, p. 92 (illustrated p. 182).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Surréalisme et Abstraction, Choix de la collection Peggy Guggenheim, January - February 1951, no. 59; this exhibition later travelled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, March 1951.
Verviers, Musée de Verviers, Deutsche Maler in Paris, February - March 1958.
Cologne, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Otto Freundlich, Gemälde, Graphik, Skulpturen, May - July 1960, no. 26.
Copenhagen, Musée de Lyngby, 1965.
Verviers, Musée de Verviers, Deutsche Maler in Paris, February - March 1958.
Cologne, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Otto Freundlich, Gemälde, Graphik, Skulpturen, May - July 1960, no. 26.
Copenhagen, Musée de Lyngby, 1965.
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