Composition IV
Technical Details
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Title
Composition IV -
Author
Wols (Otto Wolfgang Schulze) -
Year
1947 -
Dimensions
cm 65 x 54 -
Inventory
5479 -
Room
44 -
Signature
Wols
Of German descent, after some contact with the Bauhaus in Dessau, he moved to Paris in 1932, where he frequented the Surrealists and worked mainly as a photographer and musician.
His activity as a painter did not begin until after the war, putting himself forward with overwhelming force in the vein of so-called “Lyrical Abstraction”-a fusion of Surrealism and Expressionism-with a series of large-format compositions covered in enameled colors, alternating blotches and threadlike marks, lakes of color and wrinkled graininess, preludes to the future trend of Informal. Composition IV, which first appeared in 1947 and was also known as “Janvier,” is an example of extraordinary quality, entering the Jesi collection immediately after the retrospective devoted to the artist by the Venice Biennale in 1958.
