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    Al Held

    New York 1928 - 2005 Todi

    609   

    Ohne Titel

    Estimate CHF 10'000 *
      JPY 1'900'000 *
    Hammer price CHF 7'500
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    11.09.2025
    German version below
    Shipping fees

    1961

    Acrylic and Indian ink on thin, cream-coloured china paper

    45.5x60.5 cm

    Lower right signed and dated by the artist in pencil "Al Held 61"

    Provenance

    The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse , Lugt 913b

    Condition

    Sheet slightly browned and somewhat wavy. In very good condition

    Comments

    Powerful and significant early work by the New York artist, still painted in the style of Abstract Expressionism, before his turn to the so-called Hard-Edge painting, in which sharply contoured, geometric forms with luminous colours dominate.


     
     

    Ohne Titel


    1961

    Acryl und Tusche auf dünnem, cremefarbenem China

    45,5x60,5 cm

    Unten rechts vom Künstler in Bleistift signiert und datiert "Al Held 61"

    Provenienz

    Slg. Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Bern, rückseitig mit dem Sammlerstempel, Lugt 913b

    Zustand

    Blatt leicht gebräunt und etwas wellig. In sehr guter Erhaltung

    Erläuterungen

    Kraftvolles und bedeutendes Frühwerk des New Yorker Künstlers, noch im Stil des abstrakten Expressionismus gemalt, vor seiner Zuwendung an die sogenannte Hard-Edge Malerei, in der scharf konturierte, geometrische Formen mit leuchtenden Farben dominieren.


     
     
     
    Estimated shipping fees
    Switzerland CHF170
    Europe CHF270
    USA CHF360
    Overseas CHF380

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