HOFER, KARL1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 BerlinTitle: "Frau mit sieben Männern". Date: 1954. Technique: Oil on canvas. Measurement: 90 x 120.5cm. Notation: Monogrammed and dated lower right: CH54 (in ligature). Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame. Provenance:- Artist's estate, no. 374- Galerie Elfriede Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden, no. 368- Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne- Private collection Southern GermanyExhibitions:- Baukunst Cologne 1975, cat. no. 149, ill.- Galerie Raab, Berlin 1998, cat. no. 13- Galerie Baumgartl, Munich 2001, w/o cat. no., p. 81, ill.Literature:- Wohlert, Karl Bernhard: Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. 3, VAN HAM Art Publications, Cologne 2007, cat. rais no. 2800(B), ill.- Tamms, Werner: Ernte eines tragischen Lebens, in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Essen), no. 65, 18.3.1975- Blechen, Camilla (information on the exhibition of late works by Hofer in the Galerie Raab, Berlin) in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no. 259, 7.11.1998, p. 43- Müller-Mehlis, Reinhard: Qual und Aufschrei. Das Spätwerk von Karl Hofer in München, in: Handelsblatt (Düsseldorf), no. 91, 11/12.5.2001, p. 55- Painted in three versions one year before Hofer's death, among others with the title "Nächtliche Szene" ("Nocturnal Scene")- Exceptionally dense group of figures- Mysterious character study showing all the human facets of nocturnal calm and restlessness.