Acrylic on canvas
Twice signed and dated as well as titled and inscribed on verso. With inscription "Galleria del Niviglio Mailand" on stretcher. 150 x 150 cm (59 x 59 in). [JS]

PROVENANCE: Private collection Italy.

Georg Karl Pfahler, who, together with Rupprecht Geiger, counts among the most important German representatives of color field painting, developed a more and more compact and simplified style as of the late 1950s, being influenced by works of the American artist Barnett Newman. Clearly contoured color fields become Pfahler’s trademark in the 1960s. Construction and color make for the central aspects of Pfahler‘s style: "Construction is the key opportunity to create an image, a means to give order to the representation of the image, as human behavior is always subject to organizing principles. [..] Colors touch people’s emotions, colors can’t be perceived without the and colors would not exist without human sensation." (Pfahler in a conversation with Curt Heigl, translation of quote after: Georg Karl Pfahler, published by Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1977, no page). With his works from the 1960s in exhibitions such as "Painting and Sculpture from Europe" (New York 1968), Pfahler accomplished an international breakthrough. [JS].