this way brouwn.
Ink on paper, stamped “THIS WAY BROUWN,” signed by the artist “Brouwn 64.” Sheet: ca. 310 x 245 mm.; with frame: 345 x 270 mm. [Amsterdam]: “1964.”
A fine example from the artist’s signature series, stamped, inscribed, and dated in the lower right corner. The present work comes from the collection of the influential curator Kasper König (1943-2024). It was originally part of a 12-sheet work, exhibited as such at brouwn’s 1976-77 retrospective exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum and Kunsthalle Bern. In the late 1970s or early 1980s, the twelve sheets entered König’s collection. König donated six to the Museum Ludwig collection and two were given away privately; the remaining four were sold as a group by Van Ham auction house in Cologne (lot 10, 1-2 October 2024).
Exhibition History
stanley brouwn, Van Abbemuseum (November-December 1976), no. 85 (as a twelve-part work).
stanley brouwn, Kunsthalle Bern (18 June-10 July 1977), no. 85 (as a twelve-part work).
stanley brouwn [catalogue for the 1980 David Röell-Prijs] (1980), mentioned by R.H. Fuchs and pictured as a twelve-part work.
stanley brouwn, la biennale di venezia 1982 (1982), depicted using a photograph of the 1976 installation of the twelve-part work.
Vom Zeichnen: Aspekte der Zeichnung, 1960-1985, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Kasseler Kunstverein/Museum Moderner Kunst Wien (1985-86), pp. 66-68 (this sheet not pictured).
Price: $50,000.00
Item ID: 11006
