Joseph Beuys - Pietà - image-1

Lot 661 D

Joseph Beuys - Pietà

Auction 960 - overview Cologne
02.06.2010, 00:00 - Contemporary Art
Estimate: 70.000 € - 80.000 €
Result: 91.200 € (incl. premium)

Iron relief with black patina ca. 31 x 24 cm.
One of presumably only a very few examples. Apart from the present sculpture only the example pictured at Adriani is known. The latter one differs slightly from the present relief in the composition of Christ's head and legs and in the measurements.

Provenance

Helmi Herman, Dusseldorf; private collection, Germany

Literature

cf. Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz, Karin Thomas (ed.), Joseph Beuys, Köln 1973, p.24 with ill. and cf. Wouter Kotte, Ursula Mildner, Das Kreuz als Universalzeichen bei Joseph Beuys, Stuttgart 1986, no.16 with ill.