Germann Auctionhouse Zurich
Martin Kunz Art Collection
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 04:00 pm

Joseph Beuys, Mädchen und Grab

Lot 1045

Joseph Beuys, 1921-1986 (DE)

Mädchen und Grab, 1960

Brown colour on envelope.
H 115 mm W 160 mm.

Signed, dated, titled and with dedication on verso: Joseph Beuys, 1960, Mädchen und Grab für Martin Kunz. (Frame).

CHF20'000 / 40'000
EUR21'200 / 42'400
USD23'200 / 46'400

Provenance:
Collection Martin Kunz, received as a gift from the artist on the occasion of the exhibition "Spuren in Italien" in 1979.

Annotation:

Joseph Beuys had been working with brown colour since the mid-1950s. As Martin Kunz explains, the artist mixed many different colours to create this colouring in order to achieve the opaque, covering character of the hue, which is ‘reminiscent of earth, dried blood or iron’. Beuys placed ‘a layer of another material on the paper that does not penetrate the paper like watercolour, but covers it and sticks to it as a layer.’

Martin Kunz, in: Exhibition catalogue. Joseph Beuys: Spuren in Italien. Lucerne 1979.