Linear vor Gelb und Violett. 1954.
Oil on cardboard, laid on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Titled and with the name on the reverse. 75 x 100 cm (29.5 x 39.3 in).

• Offered on the international auction market for the first time. (artprice.com)
• Fritz Winter conceived compositions neither anchored in surface nor space.
• He was one of the first documenta artists, participating in 1955, 1959 and 1964.

PROVENANCE: Galleria Henze, Campione d'Italia
Galerie Westenhoff, Hamburg.
Galerie Meißner, Hamburg
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above around 1990).

LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich, 1986, no. 1858 (illustrated in black-and-white)

Catalog Marbach, Bern 1968, p.201 no. 541 illustrated.
"And great insights have no bright colors, they are either black or white or gray. The bright colors belong to the genders of the earth. I am happy to be red and yellow, but I long for the gray, the infinite."
Fritz Winter, 1952 (Quoted from: Fritz Winter. Zum 100.Geburtstag. Exhibition catalog Hamm / Ahlen / Schloß Cappenberg 2005/06, p. 141)

In good condition. With watermarks in the lower part.