Charcoal drawing, wiped, and ink brush on ivory-coloured laid paper with watermarks "CANSON MONGOLFIER" and "INGRES" (with crest) 48 x 63.6 cm, mounted on firm light cardboard 51.6 x 66.7 cm. Monogrammed and dated FM 1958 in black ink brush lower right as well as titled Souvenir de Berlin in the image lower left. - On verso upper left, probably by Vorms, inscribed and with the catalogue raisonné number with black ballpoint pen. - On verso with black studio traces; the affixed paper with minimal small marginal injuries, the cardboard somewhat unfresh, slightly wavy with minor marginal tears.
Vorms (Dessins) 663
Provenance
Private collection Belgium
Literature
Westfalenpost, Jan. 13/14 1962, with ill.; Hagen Veranstaltungskalender, Feb. 15 1962, with ill.; Pierre Vorms, Gespräche mit Frans Masereel, Dresden 1967, p. 176 with ill.
Exhibitions
et al.: Beijing/ Shanghai/ Wouhan 1958, Frans Masereel, nr. 60; Hanover 1959/1960 (Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft), Frans Masereel, nr. 98; Offenbach 1960 (Werkkunstschule), Frans Masereel, nr. 98; Hagen 1962 (Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum), Frans Masereel, nr. 88 with ill.; Gelsenkirchen 1962 (Städtische Kunstausstellung), nr. 113 with ill.; Paris 1963 (Galerie du Passeur), Frans Masereel; Weimar 1969 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen), Frans Masereel, nr. 51; East Berlin 1969 (Deutsche Akademie der Künste), Frans Masereel; Antwerp 1969 (Salle des Fêtes), Frans Masereel, nr. 115; Charleroi 1969 (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Frans Masereel, nr. 64; Frankfurt 1970 (Paulskirche), Frans Masereel, nr. 89; West Berlin 1970 (Kongresshalle), Frans Masereel, nr. 89