Umarmung. Um 1950.
Watercolor , India ink and gouache.
Lower right monogrammed. On slightly structured, brownish machine-made laid paper. 50 x 35.5 cm (19.6 x 13.9 in) , size of sheet.
Verso with a pencil study of a seated figure (presumably mid 1940s). [JS].

The work is listed inthe unpublished catalog raisonné of watercolors and drawings and will be included into a future publication. We are grateful to the Karl Hofer Archive, Cologne, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Nagel Kunstauktionen, Stuttgart, 21st October 1995, lot 107, with illu. of recto and verso.
Private collection Rhineland (since 1995).

LITERATURE: A. Kachelrieß, Dr. Nagel, Stuttgart, in: Weltkunst, 65.1959, issue 19, October 1st, p. 2636.
Kunstpreis Jahrbuch, 51.1996, p. 648.