WOLS (ALFRED OTTO WOLFGANG SCHULZE)1913 Berlin - 1951 Paris
Title: Masque rouge.
Date: 1940.
Technique: Watercolour and India ink on vellum.
Measurement: 31,5 x 24cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: WOLS.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
This work is accompanied by a certificate from Dr Ewald Rathke, Frankfurt am Main, dated 26 April 2023.
Provenance:
- Michel Couturier, Paris
- Louise Parsons, Palm Beach
- Christie's, London, 1st July 2010, lot 217
- Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 374th auction, 4th December 2010, lot 43
- Private collection Germany
Literature:
- Chiba, Shigeo: L'Oeuvre de Wols, University of Paris I, Paris 1974, p. 165
- Gutbrod, Philipp: Wols. Die Arbeiten auf Papier (catalogue raisonné), dissertation Heidelberg University, Heidelberg 2003, cat. rais. no. A 154, ill.
- Work of outstanding quality from a long-standing private collection
- Exciting composition with a stimulating surreal scenery
- Outstanding poetic unicum.
