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Lot 391 Dα

Joseph Beuys - Brücke der Verständigung

Auction 1178 - overview Cologne
18.06.2021, 11:01 - Modern/Contemporary Art - Day Sale
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 10.625 € (incl. premium)

Joseph Beuys

Brücke der Verständigung
1956

Bronze with golden brown patina. Approx. Ø 11 cm. One of few examples, each differing in chasing, finishing and patina. - Minor traces of age.

Design for a plaque for the 10th anniversary of the twinning of Duisburg and Portsmouth, which was never executed.

Provenance

Private collection, Lower Rhine

Literature

Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz, Karin Thomas, Joseph Beuys, Cologne 1973, p. 39 with ill. 49 (another example)

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf 1991/1992 (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen), Joseph Beuys, Natur Materie Form, exhib.cat. no. 131, ill. 6 (another example)

Kleve 1991 (Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek), Joseph Beuys, exhib.cat. no. 90, p. 80 with ill. (here titled: ""Taube unter Brücke"", dated 1956/1960) (anther example)