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Tomas Schmit. Tao-Yüan-Ming's Stringless Zither, European Kitsch

Lot 76
18.09.2025 18:00UTC +02:00
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Lot 76 | Tomas Schmit. Tao-Yüan-Ming's Stringless Zither, European Kitsch
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€ 1 000 – 1 500
SCHMIT, TOMAS
1943 Wipperfürth - 2006 Berlin

Title: "Tao-Yüan-Ming's Stringless Zither, European Kitsch".
Date: 1985.
Technique: Pencil and coloured pencil on Drawing paper.
Measurement: 52 x 43cm.
Notation: Titled, signed, dated and inscribed lower right: TAO YÜAN-MINGS SAITENLOSE ZITHER, EUROPEAN KITSCH; tomas schmit, 12.10.1985 WHO WANTS TO SEE THE DRACHENFELS?.


Condition:
Slightly wavy at top left. Verso margins with mounting residue, some of which shows through to the front. Otherwise in very good condition.

The work is listed on the artist's official website (www.tomasschmit.com).

Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013

Literature:
-Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 120
- Exhibition catalogue: Von Beckmann bis Warhol, Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts - Die Sammlung Bayer, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 242, ill.
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