Archaic Fragment
Oil on canvas
98 x 130 cm (38 ⁵/₈ x 51 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right – signed and titled on the reverse
1935
Provenance
– Julien Levy, New York (1935-36)
– Thomas F. Howard, New York (November 1940)
– Private collection, USA
– Private collection, France
Literature
– First Papers of Surrealism, 1942, exhibition catalogue, illustrated in black & white en noir et blanc
– Renate Wiehager, Richard Oelze : Ein alter Meister der Moderne, Munich, 1989, p. 81 et 232 ; N° G.8
