Hans Hartung

Hans Hartung 1904 - 1989 T1947-27. 1947. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. 80.5 x 100 cm (31.6 x 39.3 in). [JS]. • PIONEERING A perfect illusion of spontaneous drawing, pioneering for Hartung and European Informel art. • BIENNALE Exhibited at the 1948 Biennale, the first exhibition after World War II, which was seminal for the international avant-garde. • GUGGENHEIM Formerly part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. • RARE Works from the 1940s are extremely rare on the international auction market. • MUSEUM QUALITY Comparable paintings are at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art (1948) and the Metropolitan Museum (1949), New York. The painting is registered in the archive of the Fondation Hartung Bergman, Antibes, and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné. PROVENANCE: Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris (circa 1948, listed as the owner on the label of the Biennale). Peggy Guggenheim, Venice (until 1961). Comune di Venezia (acquired from the aforementioned in 1961). Daniel Cordier (1920–2020), Paris. Galerie Dr. Rusche, Cologne (with a label on the stretcher). Private collection, Germany. Private collection, Northern Germany (from the aforementioned). EXHIBITION: Galerie Denise René, Paris 1948. XXIVth Venice International Art Biennale, Venice 1948, no. 448 (with a label on the stretcher). Galerie Lutz & Meyer, Stuttgart 1949. Galerie Melki, Basel 1976. LITERATURE: Madeleine Rousseau, James Johnson Sweeney, and Ottmar Dominik, Hans Hartung, Vol. I of an international series on new art, Stuttgart 1950, n.p., with illustration on a black-and-white plate. James Johnson Sweeney, Einführung, in: Hans Hartung, vol. I of an international series on new art, Stuttgart 1950, pp. 1ff. James Johnson Sweeney, introduction, in: Hans Hartung, vol. I of an international series on new art, Stuttgart 1950, pp. 1ff. Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 18.20 h +/- 20 min.

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