Provenance: Karl Ströher Collection, Darmstadt (acquired directly from the artist in 1951)

Literature: Peter Beye/Felicitas Baumeister. Willi Baumeister. Catalog of the paintings. Ostfildern 2002, no. 1579, ill. p. 620; exhibition cat. Non-Objective Painting in Germany, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim 1952, cat. no. 7; exhib.cat. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 1954, cat.no. 77; exhibition cat. German Painting. Ausgewählte Meister seit Caspar David Friedrich, Wolfsburg 1956, cat.no.1, fig. p. 70; Ausst.Kat. Art in our time. Private collection Karl Ströher, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt 1954, cat.no. 11 with ill. Willi Baumeister.Paintings and Drawings, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne/Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 1965, cat.no. 41, p. 18 with ills; exhibition cat. Willi Baumeister, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1965, cat.no. 43; Erika Pohl-Ströher/Ursula Ströher/Gerhard Pohl (eds.), Karl Ströher. Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart 1982, no. 37, p. 257; Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister, Stuttgart 1952, p. 59, no. 135 with ill.