Emil Schumacher

Emil Schumacher (1912-1999) Untitled signed 'Emil Schumacher' (on the stretcher) oil and sand on canvas 60.5 x 40.5 cm. Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. “ ! ”: Lot is imported from outside the EU. For each Lot the Buyer’’’’ s Premium is calculated as 37.75% of the Hammer Price up to a value of €30,000, plus 31.7% of the Hammer Price between €30,001 and €1,200,000, plus 22.02% of any amount in excess of €1,200,000.

LOT 456 PROPERTY FROM THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ON BEHALF OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK EMIL SCHUMACHER 1912 - 1999 UNTITLED signed and dated 56 oil on canvas 18 1/4 by 15 in. 46.4 by 38.1 cm. Executed in 1956, this work is registered in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation under number 0/5.079.

Emil Schumacher Hagen 1912 – 1999 San José/Ibiza UNTITLED 1976. India inks and gouache on wove paper. 32,8 x 50 cm (12 ⅞ x 19 ⅝ in.) Signed and dated in pen upper right: Schumacher 76. On the reverse a rejected work in brush and India ink and gouache. The work is registered in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation, Hagen, as number 0/3.655. - EUR 8.000 – 12.000

Emil Schumacher Hagen 1912 – 1999 San José/Ibiza KOSSOLID 1957. Oil and sand on canvas. 140 x 95,5 cm (55 ⅛ x 37 ⅝ in.) Signed and dated lower right (incised into the wet material): Schumacher 57. A label of the exhibition Venice 1961 on the stretcher (see below). The painting is registered in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Stiftung Hagen, as number 0/4.181. Provenance: Private collection, Southern Germany Exhibitions: Arte e Contemplazione. Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1961 [acc. to label] Literature and Illustration: Manfred de la Motte (ed.): Dokumente zum deutschen Informel. Galerie Hennemann, Bonn 1976, full-page colour illustration p. 201 [=Katalogreihe Galerie Hennemann, no. 9]

Emil Schumacher (1912-1999) Piacenza signed and dated 'Schumacher 62' (lower right) oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm. Painted in 1962 Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner. FROM THE COLLECTION OF GIORGIO PIACENZA (DASSU) The authenticity of this work has been kindly confirmed by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher and the work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné under n. 0/4.598. 'Painting means transforming material into another state.' (Emil Schumacher cited in: Exh. cat. Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt am Main, Emil Schumacher, p. 92). Since the 1950's Schumacher started experimenting with the material structure of painting. The present work is an important example of his sensual style of the sixties, where the monochromatic reduction of colour is delicately interrupted by the incised, structured line. Centering the image, the line becomes like a caligraphic symbol, only suggesting the impact of the artist's gesture. The impastoed paint is interrupted by dark lines carved into the surface, recalling geological formations seen from above - like seismic fault lines, or the breaking apart of dried clay. Paint is here the essential, the primeval element, not just the tool for creating an image, but rather the subject of art itself. The peaceful though occasionally vehement movement of the picture suggests that things have not come to a standstill. As Rudi Fuchs wrote: 'One senses that working the surface, employing it as a field of expression, independent almost from the framework of drawing, is already emerging in Schumachers' mind as possibility.' (cited in: ibid, p. 10) 'It is important to me that the observer can grasp the genesis of a picture, but I always find explanations completely superfluous. If a picture does not touch the observer directly then there is something missing. The picture stands for itself; What you intended no longer matters. The picture exists and makes an effect' (1972) (Emil Schumacher as cited in: Exh.cat. Emil Schumacher, Malerei/Painting 1936 - 1991, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt 1992, p. 81).