Oil on canvas, mounted on firm card 49.1 x 36.8 cm, framed. Signed 'WOphey' (W and O joined) in brownish red upper left. The reverse signed, titled and inscribed in German script 'Architekt Benirschke/ Märchenwald WOphey' [?] in pencil upper right. - The reverse also with a small inscribed paper label. - The card slightly bent; cleaned and with small retouchings in places.
Kraus G 69 (not illus., 'oil painting, measurement and whereabouts unkown')
"Title and date correspond with the details of a handwritten work list from the estate of Ophey (AWP ["Archive Dr. Walter H. Pehle", private archives])." (Stefan Kraus, Walter Ophey, Leben und Werk mit einem Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Druckgraphik, Stuttgart 1993, p. 186).
Catalogue Raisonné
Kraus G 69 (not illust., "oil painting, measuremen
Certificate
We would like to thank Stefan Kraus, Cologne, for additional information confirming authenticity.
Provenance
Formerly collection Benirschke, Düsseldorf; private possession, Southern Germany
Literature
Resp. unknown author: in: Kölnische Zeitung, March 1906; "Von unseren Ausstellungen", in: Düsseldorfer Zeitung, 12.5.1906
Exhibitions
Düsseldorf (4 March - 1 April) 1906 (Städtische Kunsthalle), Jahres-Ausstellung der Freien Vereinigung Düsseldorfer Künstler, no. 43; Düsseldorf (May) 1906 (Städtische Kunsthalle), Walter Ophey - Joseph Kohlschein - Carl Plückebaum; Düsseldorf 1920 (Galerie Alfred Flechtheim), Walter Ophey (with paintings of Luise Böninger), no. 4 ("Märchenwald (Bes. Architekt Benirschke, Düsseldorf)", date differing "1907", marked as not for sale.