40 - Fritz Levedag. Vatokruzi. Still Life with Jugs and Lemons. Oil on wood panel. Circa 1940. Signed or labeled on the reverse.

Fritz Levedag. Vatokruzi. Still Life with Jugs and Lemons. Oil on wood panel. Circa 1940. Signed or labeled on the reverse. Auction time: approx. 12:22 p.m. (Schedule subject to change) Fritz Levedag studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau under Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In 1929, he followed Walter Gropius to Berlin and worked as an architect in Gropius’s office. He became a freelance painter in Berlin and held his first exhibition at the “Sturm”; he consistently pursued his path toward abstract painting and developed his own unique and complex theory of color and form. “Over the course of his career, he moved toward increasingly intensive studies of form and color, which reduced objects to their basic forms or geometric shapes such as lines, angles, circles, or polygons.” (Stadtmuseum Münster, online). - On the reverse, barely legible markings in red pencil: “NR 1161 || LEVEDAG || Oil/P. 29.5 : 17 || VATOKRUZ / 41.” Also includes the artist’s stamp, a dedication or ownership notation “Klein,” “No. 5 / 1st piece,” and a sticker with instructions for a reproduction. - In a backdrop frame, likely by the artist. English description: Oil on wood panel. Circa 1940. Signed or inscribed on the reverse. Fritz Levedag studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau under Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In 1929, he followed Walter Gropius to Berlin and worked as an architect in Gropius’s office. He became a freelance painter in Berlin and held his first exhibition at the “Sturm”; he consistently pursued his path toward abstract painting and developed an independent, complex theory of color and form. “Over the course of his career, he moved toward increasingly intense studies of form and color, which reduced objects to their basic forms or geometric shapes such as lines, angles, circles, or polygons.” (trans. from Stadtmuseum Münster, online). - On the reverse, barely legibly inscribed in red pencil: “NR 1161 || LEVEDAG || Oil/P. 29.5 : 17 || VATOKRUZ / 41.” Also bears the artist’s stamp, a dedication or ownership notation reading “Klein,” “No. 5 / 1st copy,” and a sticker with instructions for an illustration. - Set in a backdrop frame, likely by the artist.