(Leipzig 1904–1989 Antibes)
T1957–3, 1957, signed, dated, titled Hartung 57, oil on canvas, 23.5 x 100 cm, framed, (AR)

The work is registered in the Foundation Hans Hartung et Anna- Eva Bergmann, Antibes under the archive no. 9107–4 and will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Hans Hartung Work, currently being prepared by the Foundation Hartung Bergmann.

The work is accompained by a photo certificate released by Daniel Abadie, Paris, 23 July 1991

Provenance:
Galerie de France, Paris, 1957
Galerie Ariel, Paris, (traces of label on the reverse)
Galleria Blu, Milan
Galleria Sianesi, Milan (label and stamp on the reverse)
Galerie d’arte Ravagnan, Venice (stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Scribbling, scratching, acting on canvas, finally painting, seem to me such human activities, immediate, spontaneous and simple, like singing, dancing or playing, like an animal running, stamping the ground or shaking itself. A growing plant, the pulse of blood, everything that is germinating, growth, élan vital, living force, resistance, pain or joy may find their peculiar incarnation, their mark, in a line that may be soft or flexible, curved and proud, firm or strong, in a shrieking, joyful or sinister coloured blot.
(Hans Hartung, Self-portrait, Turin 2000)