Werner Gilles - Ischia - image-1

Lot 394 D

Werner Gilles - Ischia

Auction 1070 - overview Cologne
03.06.2016, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €

Werner Gilles

Ischia
Circa 1931

Oil on canvas, laid down on firm board 40/39 x 58.5 cm (40 x 58.5 cm) Framed. Signed 'W Gilles' in black lower right. - The lower and upper canvas margins sightly irregularly cut, the board slightly bent. The upper right corner with thumbtack hole.

The present work originates from the early period of Gille's stays on the island of Ischia. The painting's seemingly abbreviated motifs are comparable to those in the "Ischialandschaft" in the Kunstmuseum Mülheim a.d.R. (cf. exhib. cat. Werner Gilles, Träumender und Sehender, Mülheim a.d.R. 2011/2012, p. 118; Schwengers G 121 - G 127).

Certificate

We would like to thank Marlis Schwengers Zilkens, Cologne, for confirmatory information.

Exhibitions

Hanover 1954 (Kestner Gesellschaft), cat.no. 38 (with imprinted label, complemented with handwritten cat. no.)