Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in lower right. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the canvas . 70.5 x 60.5 cm. . [AW].
- Radiant composition that derives particular tension from the bold use of red contrasts. - Winter had his first US shows in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the 1950s. - He became a leading representative of German Informalism and abstract post-war art with his participation in documenta I (1955). - The Neue Galerie in Kassel shows the major exhibition “Fritz Winter - documenta Künstler der ersten Stunde" from October 2023 to January 2024.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, no. 2575 (illu. in b/w). - - Horst Keller, Fritz Winter, Munich 1976, p. 97 (iillu. in b/w).