Oil and color chalks on canvas. Signed on the right side of the folded canvas. 90 x 115 cm. . [KA].

• A dynamic composition in Peter Brüning’s lyrical, gestural style.
• Another work from 1963 achieved the to date highest hammer price for a Brüning painting (source: Artprice.com).
• Brüning is one of the most inventive protagonists of the German Informel.
• Participant in documenta II, III, and 4 in Kassel (1959-1968).
• Other works by the artist are in major museum collections, including the Osthaus Museum Hagen and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
LITERATURE: Marie-Luise Otten, Peter Brüning - Studien zu Entwicklung und Werk. Catalogue raisonné, Cologne 1988, CR no. 488 (illustrated in black and white on p. 387).

Estate of Peter Brüning (with the estate stamp on the reverse of the stretcher and on the canvas). Private collection, Rhineland. Schacky Art & Advisory, Düsseldorf. Olbricht Collection, Essen/Berlin (acquired from the above)

Expressive work, in good condition. Some areas show subtle craquelure. The upper edge shows minimal traces of rubbing. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source, and to the best of our knowledge and belief.