Composition #124, blanc. 1959.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated in lower right. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed on the reverse. 101.5 x 83.5 cm (39.9 x 32.8 in).

• The shimmering compositions of the 1950s, mostly dominated by shades of blue, are among the artist's most sought-after works.
• Subtle use of color in meditative forms.
• Adolf Fleischmann is considered a pioneer of OP Art.
• Student of Adolf Hölzel at the Stuttgart Art Academy.

PROVENANCE: Jürg Spiller and René Steiner Collection, Erlach, Switzerland.
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (with the gallery label on the reverse).
Private collection Hesse.

LITERATURE: Rolf Wedewer, Adolf Fleischmann, Stuttgart 1977, no. O 234 (b/w illu. on p. 203).
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Alfred M. Fischer, Adolf Fleischmann (1892-1968), PhD thesis University of Tübingen, Tübingen 1976, cat. no. A59/12, p. 104.