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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 329 | $****** - ****** | Melan |
paintings
89 x 117 cm (35.04 x 46.06 in)
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Titled on the reverse of the stretcher, as well as inscribed "top" and with a direction arrow
Galleria La Medusa, Rome (with the gallery label on the reverse). Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (since ca. 1985).
Emil Schumacher , Galleria Blu, Milan, June 15-July 15, 1962. iennale Internazionale D"Arte 2. Artisti Austriaci Svizzeri Tedeschi. Operanti in Italia dal 1945 al 1970, Lignano 1970 (with two exhibition labels on the reverse). VII. Bienal de São Paulo, Brasilien, September to December 1963, cat. no. 7 (with the exhibition label on the reverse). Emil Schumacher , Galleria La Medusa, Rome, cat. no. 189 (with the exhibition label on the reverse).
Emil Schumacher
Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
Melan
1961.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Titled on the reverse of the stretcher, as well as inscribed "top" and with a direction arrow. 89 x 117 cm (35 x 46 in).
In the artist"s original frame. [AW].
• Striking work in the typical style of Informalism.
•
Emil Schumacher
liberates the color from the form and the line from the representational motif.
• During the period between 1959 and 1963, Schumacher participated in documenta II and III, the 30th Venice Biennale, and the 7th São Paulo Biennial.
• Works by the artist can be found in the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Vatican Museums, Rome, among others
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The work is listed in the archive of the
Emil Schumacher
Foundation, Hagen, created by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, under the inventory number “0/4.170.” We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the
Emil Schumacher
Museum, Hagen, for his kind expert advice.
