Gouache. Monogrammed and dated lower right, as well as with a later dedication to his second wife Gisèle Boucherie, née Ribreau, “Für Gisèle!” There signed, dated and inscribed “Köln, anno 1964”. On brownish wove paper, laid on canvas. 160.5 x 95.5 cm. , size of sheet. [CH].
• An almost life-size, expressive and at the same time mysterious self-portrait of the artist.
• In a direct frontal view, the naked artist wholly exposes himself to the gaze of the viewer.
• With an autographed dedication to his second wife Gisèle Boucherie, née Ribreau, whom the artist met in Paris in the late 1940s and married in 1963.
• In 1933, the artist emigrated, and many of his works fell victim to the war and the cultural vandalism of the Nazis.
•Today, some of his works are part of important museum collections, including the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
The work was included in the previously unpublished catalogue raisonné by Pascal Räderscheidt under the number 1928-001.
LITERATURE: Günter Herzog, Anton Räderscheidt, Cologne 1991, pp. 26, 45 and 155 (illustrated in black and white).
