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WALTER DEXEL (1890-1973)
1923 III
signed and dated 'WDEXEL 23' (lower centre); signed, dated and inscribed 'Vorsicht! Glasbild! Walter Dexel 1923 III-' (on the reverse of the backing board)
hinterglasbild, oil on glass in the artist's frame
image: 10 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (27.4 x 13.7 cm.)
artist's frame: 13 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (34.2 x 20.5)
Executed in 1923
Provenance
Private collection, North Germany, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
R. Wöbkemeier, Walter Dexel Werkverzeichnis: Gemälde, Hinterglasbilder, Gouachen, Aquarelle, Collagen, Ölstudien, Entwürfe zu Bühnenbildern, Heidelberg, 1995, no. 207, p. 212 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Walter Dexel January - March 1974, no. 225, p. 112.
Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte & Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Walter Dexel Bilder, Aquarelle, Collagen, Leuchtreklame, Typografie, May - July 1979, no. 130, p. 173 (with incorrect dimensions); this exhibition later travelled to Ulm, Ulmer Museum, August - September 1979.
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Walter Dexel Bild, Zeichen, Raum, Retrospektive, November 1990 - January 1991, no. 35, p. 175; this exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, February - March 1991; Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv, April - June 1991; Wolfsburg, Kunstverein, June - July 1991; and Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, August - September 1991.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.