Der Tänzer auf der Kugel. 1948.
Oil on paper, on hard fiber plate.
Murken 135. Signed and dated lower right. 53.5 x 68.5 cm (21 x 26.9 in).

PROVENANCE: From artist's estate.
Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt am Main.
Private collection Hesse.

EXHIBITION: Edgar Ende, exhibiton and catalog of paintings from his estate, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, 2 July - 12 August, 1972, cat. no. 30 (with illu Abb.).
Edgar Ende 1901-1965. Gemälde, Gouachen und Zeichnungen, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 25 November, 1987 - 17 January, 1988/ Hamburger Kunsthalle, 5 February - 20 March, 1988/ Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 25 June - 28 August, 1988/ Von der Heydt-Museum der Stadt Wuppertal, 2 October - 20 November, 1988 (according to the estate administration aside from the catalog).
Edgar and Michael Ende, traveling exhibition in Tokyo and six other Japanese cities, 1989, cat. no. 22.

LITERATURE: Jörg Krichbaum (editor), Edgar Ende. Der Maler geistiger Welten, Stuttgart/Vienna 1987, p. 115 (with full-page colro plate).
Edgar Ende. Der Maler geistiger Welten, post card edition on occasion of the exhibition in Munich/Hamburg/Mannheim/Wuppertal, Edition Weitbrecht, Stuttgart 1987/88.
Peter Sager, Von Ende zu Ende, "Zeit" magazine, no. 1, 1988, pp. 16-21 (with illu.).
Postcard to the 'Förderkreis Edgar Ende-Stiftung', Munich 1997.