Zwei Aktricen

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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

Provenance

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

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Please note that the provenance should read:
a gift from the artist to the family of the present owner.

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Lot Essay

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)

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