oil and coloured crayon on board laid down on plywood, signed and dedicated 'for Hannie and Aldo S. Tajiri 16.4.60' on the reverse of the plywood, 33 x 26 cm.

Provenance: A gift from the artist to Aldo and Hannie van Eyck on the 16th of April 1960; Exhibited: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Exposition International d'Art Expérimental, 3-28 November 1949; Literature: Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra, Amsterdam, 1985, pp. 214/216 (illustrated in b/w); Ida Boelema a.o., Shinkichi Tajiri: beeldhouwer, Monografieën van Nederlandse Kunstenaars IX, The Hague, 1991, p. 36, fig. 28 (illustrated in colour) and p. 38; André Stufkens a.o., Shinkichi Tajiri: snelheid, erotiek en geweld, Nijmegen, 2003, p. 170 (illustrated in colour); Peter Shield, "The 1949 Cobra Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam - A substantive reconstruction", in Jong Holland, XXII, 2006, no. 1, p. 16

The present lot is one of four similar works which the artist exhibited at the first Cobra-exhibition in Amsterdam in 1949 (the others were titled 'Oiseaux', 'Femme enceinte' and 'Paysage'). His painting style in those years showed the influences of Mexican art and folk art.