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3 Preview of the Modern Prints and PostWar & Contemporary Art Auctions on 8 December 2018 The cosmos behind the black FOR FURTHER INFORMATION POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY PRINTS & MULTIPLES Silke Stahlschmidt stahlschmidt@kollerauctions.com ONLINE CATALOGUES www.kollerauctions.com 1 Alessandro Guerriero. Armoire. Unique piece for Alchimia. Laminated wood with polychrome decora- tion. Estimate: CHF 35 000 / 55 000 (Design auction, 6.12.2018) 2 Roy Lichtenstein. Crying Girl. 1963. Two colour offsets. 43.2 × 58.4 cm. S igned. Estimate: CHF 20 000 / 30 000 3 Pierre Soulages. Untitled. 1973. Gouache on paper mounted on canva s. Signed. 75 × 54.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 80 000 / 140 000 4 Marcia Hafif. Untitled. 1963. Acrylic on canvas. 140 × 140 cm. Estimate: CHF 8 000 / 12 000 On 24 December 2018, the painter and graphic artist Pierre Soulages, one of the leading figures of French contemporary art, will celebrate his 99th birthday. To- gether with German artist Hans Hartung (1904–1989) and Russian painter Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969), Soulages influenced an entire generation of abstract artists. His early interest in prehistoric and Romanes- que art was followed by an intense dialogue with the works of Rembrandt, Courbet, Cézanne and Picasso. With his friends Hartung and Francis Picabia, he parti- cipated in the Salon des Surindépendants in 1947, and one year later his works went on tour with the exhibiti- on “Französische Abstrakte Malerei”. Since that time, his works have achieved international recognition. The art of the 20th century is also represented by several ceramic works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and prints by Swiss artist Lili Tschudi (1911–2004). “KASS-II”, 1973, an acrylic painting by Hungarian artist and student of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Victor Vasarely (1906–1997), possesses all of the charac- teristics of the Op-Art style which Vasarely co-foun- ded. With its seemingly spatial geometric structure, it sheds its two-dimensionality and tests the limits of the viewer’s perception. The German Luitpold Domberger, along with his son Michael Domberger, are considered pioneers and de- velopers of the screen printing technique in Germany. Through “Edition Domberger”, they edited countless artists’ works. In the current auction are featured a series of printed works by 20th-century artists from the Domberger collection such as the Bauhaus artist Anni Albers (1899–1994) and the American minimal­ ist painters Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) and Robert Man- gold (*1937). 2 3 4 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich © 2018, ProLitteris, Z ürich