Paar in der Landschaft (recto), Porträt eines Mannes mit einer Pfeife (verso). 1924.
Oil on canvas.
Upper right signed and dated. Visible area: 117.5 x 88.5 cm (46.2 x 34.8 in).
[AM].
• Artistic document of the artist's short but intensive and inspiring friendship with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
• Impressive expressive-dynamic forms in strong primary colors.
• Key work in Scherer's expressive oeuvre.
• Exceptional amalgamation of nature and man through the cross-subject use of colors.

This work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné compiled by Martin Schwander.

PROVENANCE: In the artist's possession.
Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos.
Private collection Switzerland.
Galerie Fischer Auktionen, Lucerne.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2009).

EXHIBITION: Gedächtnis-Ausstellung Hermann Scherer, Paul Camenisch, Kunsthalle Basel, 1928, cat.-no. 20.
Hermann Scherer - Mensch, Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, 2004-2005 (with the label on the stretcher).