Vor tiefem Blau. 1990.
Mixed media on canvas.
Melchior 9/13. Lower left signed and dated. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 125 x 95 cm (49.2 x 37.4 in).
[AM].
• A spectacular blaze of colors from Thieler's later creative phase.
• Fred Thieler is a main representative of German Informalism.
• In 1959 and 1964 he participated in documenta II and III in Kassel.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin.
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt a.M.
Private collection Hesse.

EXHIBITION: Fred Thieler. Riverrun, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, 1990.

LITERATURE: Georgia Hansen et al (eds.), Fred Thieler. Riverrun, Frankfurt a.M. 1990 (with illu. on p. 11).

In good condition. Center with a narrow horizontal bulge caused by the stretcher's central beam, here with irregularities in the layer of paint. Canvas also slightly bulged and with color irregularities in lower left margin. Center left margin with a small adhesion. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of knowledge.