Exhibited: Kunstcirklerne (The Art Circles), 1963 (one relief with exhibition label on the reverse). Provenance: The artist's family. Not previously offered for sale.

The two reliefs are among the artist's earliest sculptural works from his time at the Ex-School in Copenhagen. “Egon Fischer was an active musician before he became a painter, and he continued to perform with many instruments, including at the parties at the Copenhagen Art School. One season he had also been admitted to Birger Bartholin’s School of Ballet. From four or five o'clock every morning he worked at the Remington typewriter Factory. Before the offices opened he would go around with a large leather bag, wherein he had instruments to clean the typewriters and make small repairs. Following this, he would write poems on the machines to test the repairs he had made. In the summer of 1961 he stayed in Aarhus and painted cityscapes and landscapes during this period, but afterward Fischer shifter from paintings to first working with reliefs and then iron sculptures (...) In 1961–62 Fischer moved from a cubist-influenced surface painting on Masonite boards to boards where the painted surfaces were replaced by metal wire and sheets of metal – inspired by the shapes of the typewriters. He debuted with these works at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (The Artists’ Autumn Exhibition in 1962) (Lars Morell: ”Broderskabet" (The Brotherhood), Copenhagen 2009, pp. 39–40).