Bayrle, Thomas. Fire in the wheat. 9 color silkscreens on firm wove paper. Each numbered, titled, signed and dated "Bayrle 70" in pencil except for the title page. Copies: 96/100. (Frankfurt, Draier-Verlag, 1971.) Sheet dimensions: each 47.5 x 64 cm. Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg 75 - Complete series of Bayrle's erotic silkscreens, which bear such sonorous titles as "Herr + Frau Schwanz beim Tanz", "Steig in das Traumboot der Liebe" or "Hänsels + Gretel". - Without the acrylic cassette, the title sheet minimally rubbed in the lower margin, the sheet with the married couple "Schwanz" with a narrow fold mark in the left margin, the sheet edges of the other silkscreens in part only minimally bumped. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.

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