MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION

STEFAN KNAPP
[1921-96]

STEFAN KNAPP

Blue
1958
enamel on steel panel
signed
76 x 76 cm
Provenance: Hanover Gallery;
Private collection, UK;
Bloomsbury auction,
8 May 2008, lot 141

STEFAN KNAPP

Red 1
1958
enamel on steel panel
signed
Provenance: Hanover Gallery; Private collection, UK

STEFAN KNAPP

Organic Landscape
1960
enamel on steel panel
signed
76 x 76 cm
Provenance: The artist;
Sir Denys Lasdun [c. 1960];
Christies, 31 March 2009. lot 513

STEFAN KNAPP - Triptych, c. 1965, enamel on 3 steel panels, 12 x 55 cm
Provenance: Hanover Gallery; Private collection, UK

STEFAN KNAPP

Composition
1959
enamel on steel panel
127 x 58 cm
Provenance: Hanover Gallery;
Private collection, UK;
Sothebys auction
25 May 2006, lot 333

STEFAN KNAPP - U/T, 1960, enamel on steel panel, signed, 38 x 58 cm
Provenance: Hanover Gallery; Private collection, UK

STEFAN KNAPP

Red Object
1957
enamel on steel panel
47 x 76 cm
Provenance: Bonhams
24 May 2005, lot 92

STEFAN KNAPP

Abstract
1963
enamel on steel panel
43 x 71 cm
Prov. Hanover Gallery

Stefan Knapp was born in Poland and came over to the UK in 1942 during World War 2, becoming a RAF Spitfire pilot.
He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and the Slade.
He held many hugely successful one-man exhibitions at the Hanover Gallery and became a well known international artist in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly in the US.
He produced quite a few sculptures but was best known for his pioneering enamel on steel panel abstract paintings.
A remarkable artist who seems to have drifted out of fashion.