L'Inachevée

1. The artist (1913–1951), Champigny-sur-Marne, France; by descent to his wife, Gréty Wols (1898–1984), Noisy-le-Roi, France, 1951 [Milan 1975]; by descent to her husband, Marc Johannès (1932-2005), Soissons, France, 1984 [Hamburg 2002]; sold to Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, 2005 [this and the following according to email correspondence from Corinna Fix, July 23, 2025, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Caspar H. Schübbe, Switzerland, 2007 [Beyeler 2008]; sold, Christie’s, London, June 27, 2012, lot 64, to Karsten Greve, St. Moritz; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 30, 2025.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galerie Nina Dausset, Hommage à Wols. Dernières peintures et gouache, 1952, no cat.
• Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Phantastische Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, Aug. 30–Oct. 5, 1952, cat. 245, as Peinture rose.
• Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Malerei in Paris, heute: ein Querschnitt, Oct. 18–Nov. 23, 1952, cat. 166, as Peinture Rose.
• Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Tendances Actuelles 3, Jan. 29–March 6, 1955, cat. 115.
• Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Le Mouvement dans l’art contemporain, June 24–Sept. 26, 1955, cat. 167.
• Paris, Galerie Colette Allendy, Wols. Bryen, Nov. 25–Dec. 10, 1955, no cat.
• Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 13e Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Nouvelles Réalités, July 7–Aug. 8, 1958, cat info forthcoming.
• Brussels, Galerie Europe, Wols, April 15–May 30, 1959, cat. 11.
• Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta II, July 11–Oct. 11, 1959, cat. 34; Humlebaek, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Værker fra documenta, Oct. 20–Nov. 3, 1959, cat. 40, as L’Inachevée - Det ufuldendte.
• Paris, Galerie Europe, Wols, Dec. 4, 1959–Feb. 6, 1960, cat. 12.
• Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Arte alemã desde 1945, Sept., 1960, cat. 239.
• Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunst von 1900 bis heute, Sept. 21–Nov. 4, 1962, cat. 249.

• Phantastische Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat. (Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1952) 33, cat. 245, as Peinture rose.
• René Wehrli, ed., Malerei in Paris, heute: ein Querschnitt, exh. cat. (Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1952), n.p., cat. 166, as Peinture Rose.
• René Berger, ed., Le mouvement dans l’art contemporain, exh. cat. (Lausanne: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1955), n.p., cat. 167.
• Georges Peillex, “Lausanne” in Werk, Vol. 42, no. 8 (August 1955): 163 (ill.).
• Tendances Actuelles 3, exh. cat. (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1955) n.p., cat 115.
• Wols, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions Galerie Europe, 1959), n.p., cat. 12 (ill.).
• Galerie Europe, ed., Wols, exh. brochure (Brussels: Galerie Europe, 1959), n.p., cat. 11.
• Dr. Eduard Trier, ed., Documenta II, exh. cat. (Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1959), 450, cat. 34, 455 (ill.).
• Knud W. Jensen, ed., Værker fra documenta, exh. cat. (Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 1959), n.p., cat. 40.
• José Geraldo Vieira, “A arte alemã desde 1945,” Habitat. Revista brasileira de arquitetura, artes plásticas, artesanato e decoração contemporâneas 61 (July/August 1960): 27 (ill.).
• Gisela Schilling and Maria Helena de Sousa Freitas, eds., Arte alemã desde 1945, exh. cat. (Rio de Janeiro: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, 1960), 53, cat. 239 (ill.).
• Walther Bogen, “Pollock und Wols,” Kristall. Die außergewöhnliche Illustrierte Nr. 14 (1961): 29 (color ill.).

Constellation

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Strange Boat

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Composition with Gallows

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The Scottish Shepherd (Le Berger d’Ecosse)

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Poésie de mots inconnus

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Poésie de mots inconnus

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Self-Portrait

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Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins

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