Art + Design 
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Hans Hartung 1904–1989

P10-1976-H20

1976
acrylic and ink on baryte cardboard 23¼ h × 15½ w in (59 × 39 cm)
estimate: $30,000–50,000
result: $35,000
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This work is registered in the archives of the Fondation Hartung Bergman and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Hans Hartung, currently in preparation.
Signed and dated to lower left ‘Hartung 76’. Titled and inscribed to verso ‘Vernis V-14 P10-1976-H20 58.9 x 39.5 cm’.
provenance: Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain | Bassenge, Berlin, Moderne Kunst Teil I, 26 November 2011, Lot 8412 | Private Collection, Encino, CA
exhibited: Hartung: Olis I Aiguades Damunt Cartró 1973-1977, December 1977, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
literature: Hartung: Olis I Aiguades Damunt Cartró 1973-1977, Torroella, pg. 83 illustrates this work

This work will ship from LAMA in Los Angeles, California.

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The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct ... The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.

Hans Hartung

A major figure of both the Art Informel and Tachisme movements, German-French painter Hans Hartung began experimenting with abstraction at the age of 17. Early exposure to Cubism and other burgeoning modernist styles of the era inspired the young Hartung to move from his native Leipzig to Paris, where he began to develop his own artistic vision incorporating patches of black and color to bring spontaneity and chance to the canvas. Gestural and unrestrained, Hartung’s work was labeled “degenerate” by the Nazi party, and today he is recognized as a significant forerunner to the wave of Lyrical Abstraction among American artists of the sixties and seventies.

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