Road Lug. 1972.
Pencil drawing.
Signed and dated upper right. On firm wove paper. 91.8 x 187.5 cm (36.1 x 73.8 in), size of sheet. [AW].

The Swiss artist Peter Stämpfli unfolds his artistic vision in the borderlands between Pop Art, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, and figurative painting.
• From 1969, he devoted himself to the motif of the tire.
• The tire patterns become independent, take on supernatural dimensions, and encrust themselves into infinite symbolic landscapes.
• Stämpfli's works can be found in internationally renowned collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Museum.

PROVENANCE: From a Swiss collection.

EXHIBITION: Contemporary Swiss Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, November 28, 1972–January 27, 1973 (with the exhibition label on the back of the frame).
Les Visionneurs, Galerie 15, Basel, 1973.
Fixsterne. 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier. Adolph Menzel bis Kiki Smith, Stiftung Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottdorf, May 31 - September 20, 2009, p. 129 (illustrated) (with the exhibition label on the reverse of the frame).