3082 - RICCO (ERICH WASSMER)

RICCO (ERICH WASSMER) (Basel 1915–1972 Ropraz) La tempête. 1966. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated upper left: Ricco. 66. 60 × 80.5 cm. Provenance: - Private collection of Dr. Max Wassmer, Bremgarten, acquired directly from the artist. - Private collection of Martin H. Wassmer, Goldach, inherited from the above in 1971. - Private collection, Switzerland, since 2002. Exhibited: - Aarau 1988, Ricco 1915–1972, Aargauer Kunsthaus, May 15–June 26, 1988 (verso with label). - Bern 2002, Ricco. Staged Realities, Kunstmuseum Bern, September 27–January 19, 2002 (verso with label). Literature: Max Altdorfer: Ricco. Catalogue Raisonné. List of Paintings 1931–69, Bern 1969, p. 52 (with ill.). - Exhibition catalog Bern 1986, With an Expanded Eye: Bern Artists and Photography, Bern 1986, p. 177. - Exhibition catalog *Ricco 1915–1972*, Aarau 1988, p. 37 (with ill.). - Exhibition catalog *Ricco. Staged Realities*, Bern 2002, p. 95 (with ill.). - Isabelle Falconnier: “Ricco Wassmer. Le peintre s’est arrêté à Ropraz,” in: L’Hebdo, no. 41, October 9, 2008, p. 79 (with ill.). - Marc-Joachim Wasmer: Ricco Wassmer 1915–1972. Catalogue raisonné of Paintings and Objects, Zurich 2015, p. 394, no. G 1966.01 (with ill.).