Willi Baumeister. Etana

Lot 159
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Lot 159 | Willi Baumeister. Etana
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BAUMEISTER, WILLIStuttgart 1889 - 1955


Title: Etana.
Date: 1944.
Technique: Charcoal, frottage and oil pastels on Hahnemühle wove paper (watermark).
Measurement: 31 x 48.5cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Baumeister 44.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


The work is registered in the supplement to Dietmar J. Ponert's catalog raisonné of drawings, gouaches, and collages by Willi Baumeister by Ulrike Gauss and Felicitas Baumeister under the number 1567A (www.werkverzeichnis.willi-baumeister.org).

Provenance:
- Collection Vogler, Bad Berneck
- Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 197th auction, 6.6.1994, lot 19
- Auktionshaus Lempertz, Cologne, 891th auction, 2.6.2006, lot 625
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

- Composition to the Etana myth, one of the oldest poems handed down in writing (ca. 2400 BC).
- In the examination of ancient writings Baumeister always questions the essence of humanity
- The floating elements in the frottage exhibit a lightness that is characteristic of Baumeister's late work.
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