Oil on canvas. Lower right signed and dated. Inscribed "El Adem" upside-down on the reverse. 68 x 45.5 cm.
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- Remarkably strong work in his typical informal style. - Schumacher conceived his one-of-a-kind pictorial language through layering and scratching of the material - The year this work was made Schumacher traveled to Libya - the town of El-Adem was eponymous for this painting.
The painting is listed in the catalog of Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, Emil Schumacher Foundation, Hagen, with the inventory number 0/4.601. We are grateful to Mr Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, for his kind expert advice.