Nov 21, 2019 - Sale 2525

Sale 2525 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JOSEPH BEUYS
Funnel.

Woodcut on Rives BFK, 1951 (printed 1973-74). 270x257 mm; 10 3/4x10 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated "1951" and numbered 24/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Gaesdonk. Published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. A very good impression of this scarce woodcut.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years.

The first published edition of a woodcut made by Beuys (1921-1986) early in his career. Schellmann 92 d.