1040 - Schäfer, Daniel, also known as “Braebys” (1958–2025) - Sailboats off the Côte d'Azur, acrylic on canvas mounted on artist’s board, signed, dated, and located in the lower left corner, with a reference to the figure who inspired this painting: “BRAEBYS - Vincent [Van Gogh]…Fréjus, Southern France”; handwritten inscription by the artist on the reverse: “…Der €-r-€ Van Gogh says to the social hotspots when it’s time - Are you on fire?—Or €-r-€ Van Gogh drinks a bottle of red wine on Friday, July 7, 3013, at 9:00 p.m. and listens to music by the band THE KINKS…,” Painting dimensions 45 x 47.5 cm, unframed, provenance: owned by actress Alice Hoffmann (the artist’s former partner)

Schäfer, Daniel, also known as “Braebys” (1958–2025) - Sailboats off the Côte d'Azur, acrylic on canvas mounted on artist’s board, signed, dated, and located in the lower left corner, with a reference to the figure who inspired this painting: “BRAEBYS - Vincent [Van Gogh]…Fréjus, Southern France”; handwritten inscription by the artist on the reverse: “…Der €-r-€ Van Gogh says to the social hotspots when it’s time - Are you on fire?—Or €-r-€ Van Gogh drinks a bottle of red wine on Friday, July 7, 3013, at 9:00 p.m. and listens to music by the band THE KINKS…,” Painting dimensions 45 x 47.5 cm, unframed, provenance: owned by actress Alice Hoffmann (the artist’s former partner) -Daniel Schäfer’s paintings are full of intense color, energy, and surreal to abstract variations in form in the style of Neo-Expressionism. The last exhibition of his works took place posthumously at the Schätzlerpalais in Augsburg (March–July 2025) and was titled “Cry for Color—Paintings by Braebys.” The work of this highly idiosyncratic artist was strongly influenced by his own life story, which included some traumatic episodes. As a way out of life’s crises, the self-taught artist began to paint intensively and cycle extensively. He founded the art movement known as “Bicycleism,” which was less a classical art style with a fixed theoretical program than a way of life and art form he developed himself, in which this mode of transportation (i.e., the constant state of being on the move, physical exertion, perception of the surroundings, and encounters with fellow human beings) became an integral part of his artistic identity. For him, the constant turning of the wheels, driven by his own physical strength, symbolically referred to the movement in which our entire creation is ceaselessly engaged—from the Earth as a planet down to the molecules and tiniest atoms, the fundamental building blocks of matter.