LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic on canvas

Measurements:

118.11 in. (300.00 cm.) (height) by 78.74 in. (200.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Walter Dahn 87' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Refigured Painting. The German Image 1960-88, 1988, p. 147, no. 135 (illustrated in colour, p. 195). This exhibition later travelled to New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art; Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle.

Literature:

W. Dickhoff, Walter Dahn. Irrationalismus und Moderne Medizin. Arbeiten 1984-88, Cologne 1988, no. 72 (illustrated, unpaged). H. Klotz, 'New German Painting, in Art & design, vol. 5, no. 9/10, 1989, pp. 6-13 (illustrated, p. 6). Ars Pro Domo. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz, exh. cat., Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1992 (illustrated in colour, p.133). V. S. Turchin, Po labirintam avangarda, Moscow 1993, no. 31 (illustrated). Passioniert Provokativ. Die Sammlung Stoffel, exh. cat., Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2008, no. 33, p. 346.