Hommage à Naum Gabo. 1931.
Oil on paper on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. 50 x 65 cm (19.6 x 25.5 in), the full sheet.

• Early pioneering work.
• Until 1930, the Bauhaus in Dessau was the center of the young Fritz Winter's life: he studied under, among others, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
• In 1930/31, Fritz Winter moved from the Bauhaus to Naum Gabo in Berlin to work in his studio.
• This work was created in the course of his examination of Naum Gabo's rhodoid sculptures.

PROVENANCE: Naum Gabo Collection, Berlin / Connecticut, USA.
Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Westphalia (acquired from the above through Hauswedell & Nolte in 2000).

EXHIBITION: Fritz Winter. 16 Arbeiten der Jahre 1931-1935 aus der Sammlung Naum Gabo (1890-1977). Galerie Gunzenhauser 1991, cat. no. 2 (illustrated).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 354, Post War Art, December 1, 2000, lot 480, illustrated in colors.

Good overall impression consistent with the age. The paper is mounted on canvas. The sheet margins bumped, here partly with paper loss, overall partly faded. The sheet margins with isolated tears all around. In the right-hand area of the image with isolated breaks in the image, as well as the tears described above, secured and backed by the mounting on canvas. Despite the aforementioned conditions, the sheet has an impressive overall effect. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of knowledge.