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218 - Werner Gilles
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Werner Gilles Klage um das Haupt des Orpheus 1950 Gouache on paper. 35 x 49.8 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Gilles 1950' in black lower right. - In very good condition. Schwengers A 233 (with slightly differing dimensions 36 x 49.5 cm) Provenance Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft; loan to Kunsthalle Bremen, inv. no. 671-1954/40 (label verso) Exhibitions Cologne 1961 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum), Ars viva '61, cat. no. 27 See Schwenger, A 221–231, "The Lament for the Head of Orpheus", the second Orpheus cycle in a series of 11 sheets, Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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