Oil on canvas , mounted on white-painted wood. Signed and dated on the reverse. 53 x 37 cm.
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• Between reality and imagination: Wolfgang Paalen’s magical worlds captivate with their mysterious figurations and abstractions.
• Beginning in 1932/33, he developed his distinctive, semi-figurative, biomorphic visual language in Paris.
• Works by the artist are in international museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
LITERATURE: Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen. Im Inneren des Wals, Monografie - Schriften - Oeuvrekatalog, Wien-New York 1999, CR no. 33.22 (illustrated on p. 283).

Gordon Onlsow Ford, Inverness, California (directly from the artist). Lucid Art Foundation, Inverness, California. Private collection, East Germany

Good overall impression. All in all with craquelure, minor loss of paint, and overpainting (partly likely by the artist himself, partly probably retouching), as well as minor soiling, fibrous deposits, and tiny scuffs. Weak brownish, shiny spots in places of the image, possibly oxidized varnish. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source, and to the best of our knowledge and belief.