Robert Michel (1897-1983)
Property Belonging to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Through the Generosity of Albert Robin, Sold to Benefit the Museum's Programs and Acquisitions Fund
Robert Michel (1897-1983)

Mit einem licht Bildleinen

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Robert Michel (1897-1983)
Mit einem licht Bildleinen
signed with initials and dated 'RM 27' (lower left), titled 'Mit einem licht Bildleinen' (upper left) and inscribed 'FOGRA' (lower left)
gouache, brush and pen and India ink and pencil on paper collage on board
20½ x 17¾ in. (52 x 45 cm.)
Executed in 1927
Provenance
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York.
Albert Robin, Chicago.
Bequest from the above to the present owner, 2011.

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Lot Essay

Michel belonged to a Weimar circle of young artists, who had grouped around Johannes Molzahn just after the First World War, in search for a new expressionist art.

Michel was even more fascinated by technical constructions and machines than Molzahn. He was deeply influenced by the works of the Futurists he had seen at Herwarth Walden's Galerie der Sturm in Berlin and used their ideas of the moving image in a technically dominated world in his own compositions.

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