Oil on canvas 55 x 39.2 cm, framed. Signed and dated Eugen Spiro 37 in reddish brown at lower left. - Verso on the chassis bridge with older plain paper labels (partly written in English, thereupon titled "Dächer von Paris" - Roofs of Paris) and a customs stamp (illegible) as well as a gallery label of the Galerie von Abercorn, Munich; with a label of the Südstadt Galerie, Cologne, on the frame.
Abercron A-37-1
Painted during Spiros's time of emigration, before his escape with his family via Southern France, Spain and Portugal to the USA in 1940/1941.
Provenance
From the estate of the artist; Galerie von Abercron, Munich; Südstadt Galerie, Cologne
Literature
Ernst Scheyer, Eugen Spiro, ein Brief zum neunzigsten Geburtstag Schlesien, I, 1965, p. 28-36, with ill. 1; Ernst Scheyer, Eugen Spiro - Clara Sachs, Beiträge zur neueren schlesischen Kunstgeschichte, München 1977, with color plate nr. 11
Exhibitions
New York 1949 (Galerie St. Etienne), Eugen Spiro, cat. with ill.; München 1957, (Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt), Eugen Spiro amoung others, cat. with ill.; Düsseldorf 1957 (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen), Eugen Spiro, cat. nr. 12 with ill.; Berlin 1969 (Berlin Museum), Eugen Spiro, Retrospektive, cat. nr. 37 with color plate 5; Köln/München 1978 (Galerie von Abercron), Eugen Spiro, Retrospektive, cat. nr. 50 with ill.