Pencil drawing. Signed in the lower right. Verso dated (1964/5), titled as well as with the dimensions “90/63”. On off-white Schoeller wove paper (with blindstamp). 90.2 x 62.5 cm. , size of sheet.
The signature and writing on the reverse suggest a portrait format, whereas in Wieland Schmied's catalogue raisonné mentions the work as a landscape format and with the signature in the lower left. [AR].
• Privately owned for more than 50 years.
• The work of this important German Surrealist is characterized by ambiguous forms in misty pictorial worlds.
• From the artist's very successful period around 1960: participation in the documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964) in Kassel and in the 1968 Venice Biennale..
LITERATURE: Wieland Schmied, Richard Oelze 1900-1980. Gemälde und Zeichnungen, exhibition catalog, Akademie der Künste Berlin, incl. list of works, catalogue raisonné no. Z 150 (no illu., Richard Oelze, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, September 16 - October 25, 1964, cat. no. 303 (here under the title "Landschaft mit Wirbel").
