Lot #886: HANS HARTUNG - Composition - Crayon drawing on paper

 

Artist: Hans Hartung (German/French, 1904 - 1989).
Title: "Composition".
Medium: Crayon drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1957.
Dimensions: Overall size: 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (349 x 251 mm). Image size: 12 3/4 x 8 in. (324 x 203 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower center. Cream wove paper. Fine condition. Comment(s): Hartung was a German-French painter known for his gestural abstract style. His freewheeling abstract paintings set influential precedents for many younger American painters of the sixties, making him an important forerunner of American Lyrical Abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28511-2-2400]