Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Titled, dated and inscribed with the dimensions verso on the stretcher. 130.5 x 96 cm. . [AW].
• An outstanding, powerful work in the typical style of Art Informel.
• Schumacher liberated color from form, and line from figurative motifs.
• He participated in documenta II, III and 6 in Kassel in 1959, 1964 and 1977.
• Emil Schumacher's works are in the collections of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as well as in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
The work is registered at the Emil Schumacher Archive, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, under the inventory number “0/21”.
