Wols

Collection Werner Haftmann, Germany (acquired directly from the artist)

CollectionTristan Tzara, Paris (acquired from the above in 1949)

Collection Gilbert G. Halbers, Paris (acquired from the above circa 1964)

Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 5 December 1994, lot 139

Acquired in the above sale by the present owner

Venice, XXIX Biennale Internazionale d’arte, 1958, no. 21

Kassel, Alte Galerie Museum Fridericianum Orangerie, Documenta III, June - October 1964, no. 7, p. 112

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Wols 1913-1951, September - November 1973, no. 29, p.27, illustrated in colour

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Wols, December 1973 – February 1974, no. 27

Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Baden-Baden, Städtische Kunsthalle, Surrealität - Bildrealität 1924 - 1974, December 1974 - April 1975, no. 389, p. 156, illustrated

Basel, Galerie Melki, Paris vers les années 50, Et à propos de quelques artistes informels, 1976, p. 53, illustrated in colour

Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, Zeichen des Glaubens, Geist der Avantgarde, religiöse Tendenzen in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, May - July 1980, p. 299, illustrated

Paris, Pavillon des Arts, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1945 – 1950, October 1989 – January 1990, no. 377

Werner Hofmann, "Der Maler Wols", Das Werk 46, 1959, p. 183

Marisa Volpi, "Espressionismo e informel di Wols", Arte oggi, no. 4, 1959, pp. 14–17

Pierre Restany, "Une Peinture existentielle – Wols", XXe Siècle, XXIV, no. 19, June 1962, pp. 53–56, illustrated in colour

Enrico Crispolti, L’Informale. Storica e poetica, vol. I, Assise/Rome 1971, p. 158, illustrated

Paul Vogt, Geschichte der deutschen Malerei im 20. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1972, pp. 481-482, illustated in colour

Shigeo Chiba, L'oeuvre de Wols, catalogue raisonné, Paris 1974, p. 116

Françoise LeGris-Bergmann, Composantes plastiques et pôles référentiels dans l’œuvre de Wols, Paris 1976, no. 416, pp. 301–302

Claire Van Damme, Kunst Als Catharsis en Psychogenese, Ghent 1985, no. 446, pp. 281, 284

Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, Wols, in German Art in the 20th Cetury, 1985, no. 3, p. 464, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus; Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; WOLS. Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Photographien, Druckgraphik, November 1989 - February 1990, no. 240, p . 294, illustrated in colour

Hubert Salden, Wols’ Bildkonzept, Giessen 1991, no. 14, pp. 66, 173–176, 285, illustrated

Botho Strauß, Das Partikular, Munich 2000, illustrated on the cover

Patrycja de Bieberstein Ilgner, WOLS – Die Gemälde. Paris 1946–1951, Munich 2021, no. 46, pp. 168–169, illustrated in colour

Andreas Mertin, "Das Verdampfen der ästhetischen Transzendenz. Notizen zu Bildern von Wols und zu einer Formulierung von Th. W. Adorno", tà katoptrizómena – Magazin für Kunst, Kultur, Theologie, Ästhetik, no. 153, 1st February 2025, illustrated in colour