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Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
GG-8/1993. 1993.
Mixed media. Black, yellow, and blue lacquer with white oil pastel.
Signed and dated in the lower right. On Aquari laid paper. 58 x 76 cm (22.8 x 29.9 in), the full sheet.
• From the late work of the prominent Informel artist.
• Outstanding provenance: Acquired directly from the artist and subsequently part of a major German private collection for over 30 years.
The work is registered with the inventory number “0/2.620” in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, established by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher. We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind support.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Germany (acquired from the artist in 1995).
EXHIBITION: Emil Schumacher. Malerei auf Papier 1991/1994, Ministry of Federal Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn, May 10–June 30, 1995.
Emil Schumacher – The Hildegard and Ferdinand Kosfeld Collection, Ketterer Kunst Berlin, December 18, 2020–March 6, 2021.
LITERATURE: Emil Schumacher. Paintings on Paper 1991/1994, exhibition catalog, Ministry of Federal Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn 1995, cat. no. 22 (with color illustration, p. 47).
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