LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor and pen and ink over light drawing in black charcoal and pencil resp. on slightly fibrous tinted paper

Measurements:

11.73 in. (29.80 cm.) (height) by 14.65 in. (37.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

Cipher 'WOLS' (by an unknown hand) in brush lower right in the depiction. - Dated 'Paris 1937' and numbered 'No. 802' in pencil verso lower right according to E. Rathke probably by Gréty Wols

Condition:

Framed under glass

Exhibited:

Berlin 1957 (Galerie Springer), Wols, cat. no. 6 [?, cat. nos. without dimensions, without illus.] ; Paris 1961 (Galerie Europe), Wols, Peintures et gouaches 1932 bis 1942, cat. no. 22; Munich 1968 (Galerie Van de Loo), Wols, no cat.; Genf 1971 (Galerie Bonnier), Wols, Gouaches et Aquarelles surréalistes, cat. no. 13; Zurich 1973 (Galerie Kornfeld), Wols, Gouaches et aquarelles surréalistes, cat. no. 9

Literature:

Werner Haftmann, Wols avant Wols?!, Introduction to the exhib. cat. Galerie Europe, Wols, Éditions Galerie Europe, Paris 1961; Shigeo Chiba, L'oeuvre de Wols, Thèse d'université de Paris 1, 1974, S. 135; Laszlo Glozer, Wols Photograph, exhib. cat. Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover, Munich 1973, p. 67 with illus.; exhib. cat. Wols, Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Photographien, Druckgraphik, Kunsthaus Zürich/ Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, Bern 1989, p. 43 ff. (i.a. on Wols' signatures); Philipp Gutbrod, Wols. Die Arbeiten auf Papier (Werkverzeichnis), Phil. Diss. Universität Heidelberg 2003, no. A 75 with illus.

Provenance:

Gréty Wols (1898-1984), Paris; Galerie Springer, Berlin (1957); Private possession, Switzerland; Private possession, Germany