Schwarz - Blau - Rot. 1970.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right and somewhat illegibly dated. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 70 x 60 cm (27.5 x 23.6 in). [EH].

• A luminous composition that gains its particular tension from the deliberate use of red contrasts.
• With his participation in documenta I (1955), he became one of the leading representatives of German Informalism and abstract post-war modernism.
• From October 2023 to January 2024, the major exhibition “Fritz Winter - documenta artists of the first hour” was hosted by the Neue Galerie in Kassel.

We are grateful to Dr. Gabriele Lohberg for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Artist's studio.
Private collection Nuremberg (until 1993)
Private collection Barcelona (from the above in 1993).

LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich 1986, no. 2723 (illu. in b/w).

In good condition. With a color loss in the lower edge of the image owing to framing. Isolated slight rubbing. Purple part with slight water stains and subtle craquelure. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of our knowledge.