Flowers in a Vase
  • Gabriele Münter
  • Berlin 1877 - 1962 Murnau
  • Flowers in a Vase, 1951
  • Brush and black ink, on paper,
  • estate stamp on the verso
    and date with pencil by the artist:
    Fr. 23. XI. 51
  • 223 × 317 mm
Provenance:
Gabriele Münter- and Johannes Eichner-Foundation, Munich

On her way to increased abstraction, Gabriele Münter made ever more frequent use of negative structures for certain motifs.

Through such a reduction, the bouquet shown here recalls the linoleum cuts and preparatory drawings from the early years of her collaboration with Kandinsky.