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Ursula Schultze-Bluhm - Oil on canvas
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Ursula Schultze-Bluhm
Mummenschanz bei Nacht, 1997
Oil on canvas
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163
Ursula Schultze-Bluhm
Mummenschanz bei Nacht, 1997
Oil on canvas
Starting bid:
€ 3,000
Estimate:
€ 4,000 - 6,000
End: 04-15-26 16:21:00 Berlin
04-15-26 10:21:00 New York
04-15-26 07:21:00 Los Angeles (30 days, 17h:13m)

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 78,68 €,
within the EU countries 150,02 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.


Ursula Schultze-Bluhm
1921 - 1999
Mummenschanz bei Nacht. 1997.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the canvas. 80 x 100 cm (31.4 x 39.3 in). [AW].

• Ursula Schultze-Bluhm creates fantastic worlds full of surrealistic and poetic elements.
• A remarkable artist of the postwar avant-garde with an independent and multifaceted oeuvre.
• Participated in documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 and the Sydney Biennale in 1979.
• This work was part of the major retrospective at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 2023.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin.

EXHIBITION: Ursulas phantastische Welt, Vertretung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen bei der Europäischen Union, Brussels, September 19-October 23, 1998.
Ursula - Das bin ich. Na und?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, March 18 - July 23, 2023 (illu. in color on p. 329).

LITERATURE: Evelyn Weiss (ed.), Ursula, Munich 2007, CR no. 97/009 (illu. in color on p. 435).

In good condition, colors in fine impression. The canvas shows slight loss of tension in the corners. The edges of the painting are bordered with fabric tape. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.