Komposition Gelb-Braun. 1950.
Oil on paper, laid on canvas.
Signed and dated in pencil in the lower right. 51 x 70 cm (20 x 27.5 in) [KA].

• Fascinating abstraction with playful exploration of shapes and color fields.
• Since his participation in the documenta I (1955), Fritz Winter has been considered one of the leading representatives of German Informal Art and abstract post-war modernism.
• Winter has been exhibiting in the United States since the 1950s, and was represented in two exhibitions at, among other places, the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

We are grateful to Dr. Gabriele Lohberg, Krefeld, for her kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Marbach, Bern (withthe label on the reverse).
Private collection, Southern Germany (since 2000, Hauswedell & Nolte).

LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, no. 1044 (illu. in b/w).
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Galerie Marbach (ed.), Fritz Winter, Werke aus den Jahren 1949 bis 1956, Bern 1968, no. 182 (illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 354th auction, Kunst nach 1945, December 1, 2000, lot 481.

In good condition. Partially with fine craquelure. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.