Tetuan (16-89), 1967/1989

ArtistWinfred Gaul, Düsseldorf 1928–2003 Düsseldorf

Acrylic on cotton

(H x W)140 × 149 cm

Status

on display, room GAUL. Werke aus der Sammlung Kemp

About the workBetween 1965 and 1972, Winfred Gaul produced numerous preparatory drawings exploring how a picture’s external shape determines its internal structure. In 1989, he developed a series of five paintings from this body of work and named them after cities in southern Spain and North Africa, including Tétouan in Morocco. Their starting point is a parallelogram, a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides, here tilted to the right. The surface is divided by two adjacent triangles. Black-and-white as well as blue-and-red contrasts distinguish the internal forms from the outlines, lending the painting its impact.

AccessionKemp Collection Foundation

ProvenanceJanuary 1989 Willi Kemp (Cologne 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) acquired from the artist; 2011 Kemp Collection Foundation in the Kunstpalast acquired by gift of Willi Kemp

Inventory number0.mkp.2011.Kemp047

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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