Lot 29
Lot 29
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
WALTER DEXEL (1890-1973)

Komposition 1923 XI (recto); Stadt (verso)

Price Realised GBP 187,500
Estimate
GBP 150,000 - GBP 250,000
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
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WALTER DEXEL (1890-1973)

Komposition 1923 XI (recto); Stadt (verso)

Price Realised GBP 187,500
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
Price Realised GBP 187,500
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
Details
WALTER DEXEL (1890-1973)
Komposition 1923 XI (recto); Stadt (verso)
signed, dated and titled 'WALTER DEXEL 23 1923 XI' (on the stretcher); signed and indistinctly dated `W. DEXEL 2...' (verso, at the extreme lower centre edge; under the stretcher bar) and inscribed ‘RAUCHEN U. BETRETEN DER BAUSTELLE IST VERBOTEN' (verso, within the composition)
oil on canvas
2512 x 2114 in. (64.9 x 53.8 cm.)
Painted in 1923
Provenance
Private collection, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
Friedrich Wilhelm Krämer, Cologne, by 1974.
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg.
Private collection, Germany, by whom probably acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
R. Wöbkemeier, Walter Dexel, Werkverzeichnis: Gemälde, Hinterglasbilder, Gouachen, Aquarelle, Collagen, Ölstudien, Entwürfe zu Bühnenbildern, Heidelberg, 1995, no. 217, p. 215 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, Nassauischer Kunstverein und Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Gruppenausstellung u. a. mit Werken von Buchheister, El Lissitzky, Molzahn, Robert Michel, Ella Bergmann und Kurt Schwitters, May - June 1925, no. 7, p. 1.
Braunschweig, Städtischen Museum, Walter Dexel: Gemälde, Hinterglasbilder, Aquarelle, Collagen, 1912 bis 1932, February - March 1962, no. 48, n.p.(titled 'Figuration 1923 XI').
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Walter Dexel, January - March 1974, no. 226, p. 112 (illustrated p. 60; with incorrect dimensions).
Münster, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Walter Dexel. Bilder, Aquarelle, Collagen, Leuchtreklame, Typografie, May - July 1979, no. 62, p. 170 (illustrated p. 145); this exhibition later travelled to Ulm, Ulmer Museum, August - September 1979.
Berlin, Kunstamt Wedding, Walter Dexel, September - October 1983, no. 52, n.p. (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, January - February 1984.
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Walter Dexel, Bild Zeichen Raum, November 1990 - January 1991, no. 38, p. 175; this exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, February - March 1991; Berlin, Bauhuas-Archiv, April - June 1991; Wolfsburg, Kunstverein, June - July 1991; and Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, August - September 1991.
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Konstruktivistische Internationale Schöpferische Arbeitsgemeinschaft 1922-1927: Utopien füreine europäische Kultur, May - August 1992, no. 19, p. 334 (illustrated p. 233); this exhibition later travelled to Halle, Staatlichen Galerie Moritzburg, September - November 1992.
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