Lot 34
Lot 34
Wolfgang Paalen (1905-1959)

Vol de Moustiques (Mosquito Flight)

Price Realised EUR 23,750
Estimate
EUR 3,000 - EUR 5,000
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Wolfgang Paalen (1905-1959)

Vol de Moustiques (Mosquito Flight)

Price Realised EUR 23,750
Price Realised EUR 23,750
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Wolfgang Paalen (1905-1959)
Vol de Moustiques (Mosquito Flight)
signed with the artist's initials 'WP' (lower right)
ink, soot and gouache on paper
27.5 x 21cm.
Executed in 1938
Provenance
Estate of the Artist, Isabel Marin de Paalen, Mexico City.
Andreas Neufert, Berlin-Schöneberg.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.
Exhibited
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Felons, 2005.
San Francisco, Frey Norris Gallery, Wolfgang Paalen: Implicit Spaces, 2007, no. 11 (illustrated, p. 24).
Kaufbeuren, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Fever, 2008.
Dusseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Le grand geste! Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964, 2010, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 16).
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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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