Tempera on cardboard. Signed and dated in the lower left. 85 x 64 cm.
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• Offered on the international auction market for the first time.
• From a small group of vibrant still lifes created in 1976, around a year before the painter's death.
• With works in radiant colors and with ornamental forms, Max Kaus discovered a completely new and utterly harmonious expressiveness.
LITERATURE: Cf. regarding the twelve still lifes in a size of 85 x 64 cm from 1976: Claus Zoege von Manteuffel, Max Kaus. 1891-1977, in: Irmtraud Frfr. von Adrian-Werburg, Gerhard Bott (eds.), Max Kaus. Werke und Dokumente, Nuremberg 1991, pp. 15-110, here p. 108.