Subway" from the series "Racing Lights". One of the rare oil paintings by the Austrian artist Erika Giovanna Klien from 1951, monogrammed and dated, framed. Klien is the best-known representative of Viennese Kinetism, an avant-garde movement of the early 1920s. The work is part of a series of works in which the artist analytically deals with the New York subway. She was particularly fascinated by light reflections and the rapid speed of the subway and became the subject of her constructivist graphics, drawings and paintings in this series.

Literature references: Exhibition catalog "Erika Giovanna Klien" Exhibition Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna, page 103, fig. 238.

Provenance: Estate of sister Bertha Klien, Galerie Michael Pabst - Munich, private collection