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Property from an Esteemed West Coast Collection

Joseph Beuys

Breeding-Energy-Mensch

Session begins in

November 19, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Bid

450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed West Coast Collection

Joseph Beuys

1921 - 1986


Breeding-Energy-Mensch

signed, dated 1974 and inscribed Chicago (on the reverse)

chalk on blackboard

48 ¾ by 59 ¾ in.

123.8 by 151.8 cm.

Executed in 1974.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Acquired from the above in April 1981 by the present owner

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Public Dialogue, 15 January 1974

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Beuys, fig. 348, p. 209, illustrated (atthe Art Institute of Chicago)

Joseph Beuys, Beuys in America, Göttingen 1997

Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys, February 1993 - April 1994, fig. 39, p. 72, illustrated (at the Art Institute of Chicago)