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212 - Willi Baumeister
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Willi Baumeister Figur im schwarzen Oval (Der Boxer) 1935 Charcoal drawing, wiped, with pencil and scratched contours on chamois-coloured card; this perforated at the left edge. 44.2 x 34.4 cm. Signed and dated 'Baumeister 35' in pencil lower right and numbered '3', the number "230" in a circle lower left (alongside the erased number "144"). - Fine condition. Barely visible, old traces of creases. Ponert 591 Provenance Dr. Wilhelm F. Arntz, Haag i. OB; Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne; Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft; loan to Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (since 1961), inv. no. LN 1962/1 Exhibitions Cologne/Essen i.a. 1957 (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie/Villa Hügel i.a.), Wanderausstellung des Kulturkreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie. Deutsche Aquarelle und Zeichnungen seit 1900, cat. no. 10; Cologne 1961 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum), Ars viva '61, cat. no. 79; Kassel 1964 (Kabinett Museum Fridericianum), documenta III. Handzeichnungen, cat. no. 5, ill. p. 9 Literature Stifter und Freunde des Museums am Ostwall, Dortmund 1966, no. 38, with ill.
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