CARL BUCHHEISTER Hand Signed Etching 1962 German

CARL BUCHHEISTER 1890-1964
1890 - Hanover - 1964 (German)

Title: Kompositon Jaerve, 1962

Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated, Numbered and Titled Etching on BFK Rives wove paper

Paper size: 23.5 x 18 cm / 9.2 x 7 in

Plate size: 11 x 14.3 cm / 4.3 x 5.6 in

Additional Information: This work is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right corner "C. Buchheister".
It is also hand numbered, titled and dated "Kompositon Jaerve 1962 5/60" at the lower left corner.
This work was printed in a limited edition of 60 signed and numbered impressions in 1962.
It bears the BFK Rives Watermark.
There is a label from the Arturo Schwarz Gallery at the back of the frame.
Another impression of this work can be found in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Provenance: Arturo Schwarz Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Private Italian collection (acquired directly from Arturo Schwarz)

Note: Arturo Umberto Samuele Schwarz (b. 1924, Alexandria, Egypt) son of a German father and an Italian mother, is an Italian scholar, art historian, poet, writer, lecturer, art consultant and curator of international art exhibitions.
He lives in Milan, where he has amassed a large collection of Dada and Surrealist art, including many works by personal friends such as Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Man Ray, and Jean Arp.

Literature: Carl Buchheister, Elisabeth Buchheister, Willi Kemp, Susanne Thesing. 1984. Carl Buchheister: 1890 - 1964. Werkverzeichnis der abstrakten Arbeiten, Volume 1. E.Roether
Reference: Buchheister/Kemp R 5

Condition: Very Good Condition. Not examined outside the frame.