Lot 196 | Ursula | "Die grosse gefiederte Schlange"

URSULA
1921 Mittenwalde - 1999 Cologne

Title: "Die grosse gefiederte Schlange".
Subtitle: 3-part work.
Date: 1975.
Technique: Each: sepia and feather on card.
Measurement: From 65,5 x 73 x to 128 x 100cm.
Notation: Signed and dated at the bottom: Ursula 1975. One sheet additionally titled lower left: "Die grosse, gefiederte Schlange".
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame (up to 156 x 127cm).


Condition:
Sheets mounted on backing board in places. One sheet with loose mounting on the right edge and minimally dented corner at top right. Card slightly discoloured on two sheets. One sheet also with occasional spots of mould and scuffed lower edge and lower left corner at lower left. Otherwise in good condition. Not examined out of the frame.

Provenance:
- Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne (label)
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen

VAN HAM Art Estate has been managing part of Ursula Schultze-Bluhm's estate since 2018 in cooperation with the Folkwang Museum Association in Essen.

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne 1976/77
- documenta 6, Kassel 1977
- Society of Fine Artists of Austria, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna 1979
- Museum Bochum, 1979
- State Art Collections, Kassel 1979
- Saarland Museum Saarbrücken 1980
- Overbeck Society, Lübeck 1987
- Museum Folkwang, Essen 1987/88

Literature:
- Weiss, Evelyn (ed.): Ursula, Munich 2007, WVZ No. 75/207, ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Documenta 6, Kassel 1977, vol. 3, p. 242, ill. (right section)
- Exhibition catalogue Ursula/Bernard Schultze, Vienna 1979, cat. no. 44
- Exhibition catalogue Ursula, Bochum 1979, cat. no. 88
- Exhibition catalogue Ursula, Kassel 1979, cat. no. 88
- Exhibition catalogue Ursula, Saarbrücken 1980, cat. no. 88
- Exhibition catalogue Ursula, Lübeck 1987
- Exhibition catalogue Ursula, Essen 1987/88
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (publisher): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 86, ill.


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