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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.
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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