Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse. 74.5 x 100 cm. , the full sheet. [EH].

• Early, Informel composition.
• Participated in documenta I (1955) in the year this work was created.
• Fritz Winter—one of the leading representatives of German Informel and Postwar Abstract Modernism.
• As early as the 1950s, Winter exhibited in the United States and was represented there in, among other places, two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter: Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, CR no. 2028 (with black-and-white illustration).

Private collection, Hesse

In good condition. A few minor scratches and signs of wear. Slight water stains along the right edge of the sheet and in the lower right corner, and faint water marks in places along the outer right edge of the sheet. The corners show minimal wear, and there are small fingerprints in the lower left corner. [EH]