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Pencil on brown paper Germany, around 1960 Eduard Bargheer (1901-1979) - German painter and graphic artist Overall dimensions, each framed: 43 x 33 cm; sheet, each 27 x 23 cm Good condition Provenance: from a German private collection Bargheer created drawings such as these as studies for his mosaics and are very rare the international auction market These three pencil drawings by the German painter and graphic artist Eduard Bargheer show different studies executed in pencil. Human as well as animal figures are discernible amongst dense geometrical structures. The drawings appear very agitated yet perfectly balanced and take up the mosaic- like structure of Bargheer's watercolours from the 1950s and 1960s. The three drawings are in good condition with usual traces of wear and age. They are executed in pencil on brown paper and are each framed in a mat. The frames are in good condition with minor traces of age and wear like scratches. The overall dimensions of each drawing, framed, is 43 x 33 cm; the dimensions of each sheet is 27 x 23 cm. Eduard Bargheer (1901-1979) Eduard Bargheer was born near Hamburg in 1901. He started studying at the art school Hamburg-Lerchenfeld, but was basically self-taught. In 1925 he travelled to Italy for the first time, where he spent a lot of time in Florence. In the following years he travelled to Paris, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. From 1928 onwards Bargheer worked in his studio in his hometown and became a member of the artist group Hamburgische Sezession. He met the art historians Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky as well as Paul Klee. In 1940 he moved to Ischia where he witnessed the end of the Second World War. From 1950 onwards his work was shown in many exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including the first and second documenta exhibitions in Kassel. In the 1960s Bargheer travelled throughout Africa, which, like his previous travels, considerably influenced his work. Eduard Bargheer created an extensive oeuvre, which has forged a niche for itself in-between expressionism and abstraction.