Oil on canvas
Kraus G 240. Signed lower right. 70 x 65,5 cm (27,5 x 25,7 in)

PROVENANCE: Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf.
Private collection Rhineland.

Our nice work was presumably made during a journey to Italy Walter Ophey did in spring 1910, the local lighting conditions hacve a strong impact on this painting. Light, lucent colors, appid with short and ppastose strokes of the brush, join to form a southern landscape with a viall ion the back. "Three overhappy months, the paintings become very light, the colors soaked up by the light, [..]." (translation of quote in: Günther Rehbein, Walter Ophey, Recklinghausen 1958, p. 11). [DB].