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Karl Otto Götz
Vier Varianten mit einem Schema I, 1982
Gouache
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182
Karl Otto Götz
Vier Varianten mit einem Schema I, 1982
Gouache
Starting bid:
€ 7,200
Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 12,000
End: 07-15-26 16:30:00 Berlin
07-15-26 10:30:00 New York
07-15-26 07:30:00 Los Angeles (29 days, 18h:15m)

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 133,96 €,
within the EU countries 447,31 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


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Karl Otto Götz
1914 - 2017
Vier Varianten mit einem Schema I. 1982.
Gouache auf Karton.
Signed in the lower left. 64.5 x 98.5 cm (25.3 x 38.7 in), the full sheet.
[AR].

• Between intuition and control: a high-contrast work born of gestural expression.
• Movement is one of the defining elements in the work of K. O. Götz.
• He is considered a leading figure of German Informel, and his works are represented in major museum collections, including the Tate Collection, London, the Albertina, Vienna, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

The work is listed in the online catalogue raisonné of the artist’s works on paper under the number WVP-06/82.

PROVENANCE: DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a. Main.
Private collection, Hesse.
Family-owned ever since.

EXHIBITION: Karl Otto Götz, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt a. Main, September 11 - November 8, 2014, pp. 64-65.

LITERATURE: K. O. Götz - Erinnerungen und Werk, volume 1b, Düsseldorf 1982, p. 1338 (illustrated, no. 1529).

In good condition. Firmly mounted on backing board (according to the online catalogue raisonné, the work is signed, dated, and titled again on the reverse, and bears the stamp “Sammlung Rissa-Götz”). Shows minor scuffing in places, as well as fingerprints along the edges and traces of studio work.