Oil on firm cardboard
Wöbkemeier 26. Signd and datd lower left. Signed, dated and titled on verso as well as inscribed "ES 71", with same inscriptions on rear of frame. 62,5 x 33,5 cm (24,6 x 13,1 in)
Appealing work, both in terms of composition as well as coloring, dating from the artist's early period of creation. The work shows that Walter Dexel, presumably also under the influence of his contemporaries, most of all the expressionists, attained a new form of expression by both formal means and an unusual coloring. [DB].

PROVENANCE: From artist's estate.

EXHIBITION: Walter Dexel, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 25 January - 3 March, 1974, cat. no. 8, p. 107 (with typographically inscribed exhibition label on rear of frame).
Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Bemerkung zum Werk Walter Dexels, in: Walter Dexel. Bilder, Aquarelle, Collagen, Leuchtreklame, Typografie, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster/Ulmer Museum, 1979, p. 9 (illu. p. 12), cat. no. 14, p. 169.
Walter Dexel. Bilder, Aquarelle, Collagen, Fritz Winter-Haus, Ahlen/Westphalia 31 May - 30 June 1980, no. 3 (with typographically inscribed exhibition label on rear of frame).
Walter Dexel, Kunstamt Wedding von Berlin, 3 September - 6 October, 1983, cat. no. 13.