Live Auction 3049Post-War and Contemporary Art
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Lot 71

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)

Zwei Aktricen

Closed5 November 2014

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EUR 39,900

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Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Zwei Aktricen
signed, titled and dated 'Joseph Beuys 1958 Zwei Aktricen' (lower left of the mount)
pencil on paper laid down on paper
sheet: 27 x 18 cm.
mount: 79.5 x 51.5 cm.
Executed in 1958

A gift from the artist to the family of the present owner.

Specialist note

Mrs Eva Beuys has kindly confirmed the authenticity of the present lot.

A drawing is (...) the changing point from the invisible powers to the visible thing.'
(Joseph Beuys quoted in an interview with Bernice Rose on 18 July 1984 in Düsseldorf, in: A. Temkin and B. Rose, Thinking is form. The drawings of Joseph Beuys, Philadelphia 1993, p. 17)