Watercolor
With estate stamp on verso (not in Lugt). On laid paper. 49,5 x 43,5 cm (19,4 x 17,1 in), the full sheet
With sunning as well as faint discolored spot.

Accompanied by a photo expertise by Thea Thöny, Vienna, May 1974.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

The delicate watercolors by Wilhelm Thöny are of a light-flooded transparency that is unmatched. The topographic is just hinted at and remains behind the watercolor‘s lucid blaze of color. As the sheet’s perspective is geared at a central axis, the playful world of color forms is tamed. [KD].