Blumen und Früchtestilleben. Ca. 1940/50s.
Oil on cardboard.
With the estate stamp on the reverse, there also with a label inscribed with the estate number "S 79", partly by hand and partly in typography, as well as with a label with the stamped number "965". 41 x 32.5 cm (16.1 x 12.7 in). [EH].

• Wonderful work from the group of flower still lifes in Münter's late oeuvre.
• With bold colors, strong contrasts and a background dissolved in free forms, Gabriele Münter created an extremely appealing still life.
• In 1955, the artist's works were presented at the first documenta in Kassel.
• This year, Gabriele Münter is internationally celebrated with numerous museum exhibitions (Vienna, Madrid, London and Bern).

PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

“Despite all repetitions, Münter's flower paintings, even those made at an advanced age, are characterized by an indestructible vitality."
Annegret Hoberg and Helmut Friedel, in: Gabriele Münter: 1877-1962. Retrospective (on the occasion of the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 1992, in the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 1993, and in the Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm 1993), Munich 1992, p. 238.