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Lot 233 D

Werner Gilles - Nach der Bombennacht

Auction 1188 - overview Cologne
04.12.2021, 11:00 - Modern and Contemporary Art - Day Sale
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
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Werner Gilles

Nach der Bombennacht
1948

Oil on canvas 26 x 40.5 cm Framed. Signed and indistinctly dated 'Gilles 48' in dark blue lower left. - The margins slightly irregularly cut, the corners mounted to backing card in mat.

Catalogue Raisonné

Zilkens Schwengers G 259

Provenance

Collection Eberhard Seel, Berlin; Collection Alexandra von Reitzenstein, Berlin; Lempertz, 29 May 1999, Auktion 773, Moderne Kunst, lot 760; Private possession, North-Rhine Westphalia

Literature

Cf. Jan Baleka, Werner Gilles, Mülheimer Monographien III, Mülheim 1996, colour ill. 32: the same motif, created in 1950, in the inventory of the Museum Mülheim/R.

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf 1961 (Kunstverein), Werner Gilles, cat. no. 81; Berlin 1962 (Akademie der Künste), Werner Gilles, cat. no. 41; Cologne 1964 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Werner Gilles, cat. no. 27 with ill. (exhibition label on frame backing); Viersen 1966 (Festhalle), Werner Gilles, cat. no. 10; Cologne 1967 (Galerie Baukunst), Werner Gilles, cat. no. 32; Bonn 1973 (Rhein. Landesmuseum), Werner Gilles im Rückblick, cat. no. 30, ill. 9