Oil on canvas, 1961. 1110x915 mm; 43 1/2x36 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "2" in oil, verso.
Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey.
A career economist, Ethe (born 1924) collected artworks by Fernand Léger, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee, Joseph Cornell, and leading Post-Impressionist artists, occasionally lending to The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Ethe started to create his own art in the 1960s, drawing inspiration from his own collection—non-representational forms with the gestural qualities of Léger paired with the experimental color theories and vibrations of Piet Mondrian and Kasimir Malevich.
