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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 52 | $****** - ****** | Palis |
paintings
170 x 250 cm (66.93 x 98.43 in)
Oil on panel.
Signed and dated in the lower right
Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf. Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1999).
Emil Schumacher. Works 1989-1992, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, October 16, 1992-January 9, 1993. Emil Schumacher. Bider und Gouachen, Landesvertretung für Nordrhein-Westfalen, Brussels, October 27-December 9, 1994. Emil Schumacher. Späte Bilder (Late Paintings), Deutsche Bank Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 28, 1995-September 1, 1995. Emil Schumacher / Kurt Schwitters / Ricardas Vaitekunas, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, August 30, 1996-October 27, 1996. Emil Schumacher. Retrospective / Rétrospective, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, November 12, 1997-January 4, 1998; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, February 6-April 19, 1998; Haus der Kunst, Munich, May 15-July 12, 1998, cat. No. 56 (illustrated in color on p. 105). mil Schumacher. Beseelte Materie (Animated Matter). Anniversary exhibition celebrating 10 years of Kunsthalle St. Annen, St. Annen Museum, Lübeck, May 5-September 8, 2013. Emil Schumacher - Die Sammlung Hildegard und Ferdinand Kosfeld, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, December 18, 2020-March 6, 2021. Jens Christian Jensen et al. (eds.), Emil Schumacher. Exhibition catalog. Musei e cultura Pinacoteca comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno 1994 (illustrated on p. 35). rnst Gerhard Güse, Ein Kreis schließt sich. Der Zusammenhang von Frühwerk und späten Bildern im Werk Emil Schumachers, exhibition catalog Emil Schumacher. Späte Bilder, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg, Pulheim 1995 (illustrated in color on p. 29). Ernst Gerhard Güse, Emil Schumacher. Das Erlebnis des Unbekannten, Ostfildern 2012 (illustrated in color on p. 365). horsten Rodiek et al. (eds.), Emil Schumacher. Beseelte Materie, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck 2013 (illustrated in color on p. 75). “I hate smoothness. I hate elegance. I hate all these shallow things. I want to go deeper.” Emil Schumacher. Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 19.08 h +/- 20 min.
Jens Christian Jensen, Neue Bilder von Emil Schumacher, Foreword, exhibition catalog, Emil Schumacher. Werke 1989-1992, Galerie Strelow, Düsseldorf, 1992, pp. 5-10 (illustrated in color on p. 33).
Emil Schumacher
Palis
1992.
Oil on panel.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 170 x 250 cm (66.9 x 98.4 in).
[AR].
• Rare large-scale, informalist composition with a striking black and yellow contrast.
• Schumacher creates a highly sensual material effect with a pronounced dialectic between color fields and the dynamic lines.
• Exhibited in the last retrospective during the artist"s lifetime in Paris, Hamburg, and Munich.
• One of the largest works by Emil Schumacher ever offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Part of an extensive Schumacher collection: in private ownership for almost 30 years
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The work is listed in the Emil Schumacher Foundation archive in Hagen, compiled by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, under inventory number “0/510.” We would like to thank Mr. Rouven Lotz, Director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind support.
