Handstand. 1924.
Carcoal pen and Oil on paper, laid on panel.
Beye/Baumeister 414. 45.7 x 35.8 cm (17.9 x 14 in), almost the full sheet.
Baumeister examined the one-armed handstand in several drawings and in one painting (Beye/Baumeister 425). This oil study offered here was made in the mid 1920s in preparation of the portfolio that was released by Gerd Hatje in 1947.

PROVENANCE: Collection Wilhelm F. Arntz, Haag/Upper Bavaria.
Galerie Ilse Schweinsteiger, Munich
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from aforementioned in 2009).

LITERATURE: Will Grohmann, Gemälde und Zeichnungen von Willi Baumeister. Portfolio published by Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart and Calw 1947, cat. no. 2 (with color illu.).

Good overall impression. Sheet firmly laid on panel. Margins consistently with small traces of glue and paper remains from a former mounting. There also with small color breakages. Upper right margin with a small closed split (ca. 1 cm). Tiny isolated soiled spots.