TLF: "The Ape", 1954 [101]; "Ape", 1954 Cambridge [102, Nr. 84]; This painting has disappeared without trace from my parents' apartment where it hung until my mother moved out in 1970 [103, photograph]
Whereabouts not known
Provenance: 1955 sold from the exhibition at Behn-Moore Gallery to Mrs. Julia Feininger, New York
TLF: "Of all the baboons, the mandrill it the fiercest. ... Not unfittingly, therefore, the mandrill (pepio mormon) stands at the beginning of a long period of my painting myself into the green and not man-made world where he has his being – not in a cage, nor in the Affentheater, but in the habitat where God has put him, cravings and all; such as I envisaged the West-African jungle to look like." [105]
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Repro: A22
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