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Fritz Winter
Mit Violett, 1955
Oil
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8
Fritz Winter
Mit Violett, 1955
Oil
Starting bid:
€ 9,000
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 15,000
End: 11-15-26 15:03:00 Berlin
11-15-26 09:03:00 New York
11-15-26 06:03:00 Los Angeles (29 days, 14h:45m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
insured shipping:
within Germany 93,68 €,
within the EU countries 165,02 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


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Fritz Winter
1905 - 1976
Mit Violett. 1955.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse. 74.5 x 100 cm (29.3 x 39.3 in), the full sheet. [EH].


• Early, Informel composition.
• Participated in documenta I (1955) in the year this work was created.
• Fritz Winter—one of the leading representatives of German Informel and Postwar Abstract Modernism.
• As early as the 1950s, Winter exhibited in the United States and was represented there in, among other places, two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse.

LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter: Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, CR no. 2028 (with black-and-white illustration).

In good condition. A few minor scratches and signs of wear. Slight water stains along the right edge of the sheet and in the lower right corner, and faint water marks in places along the outer right edge of the sheet. The corners show minimal wear, and there are small fingerprints in the lower left corner. [EH]