Color woodcut on laid paper. Pencil signature. Copy: 26/120, Hans Christian Verlag.

Image: 28 x 47 cm. Behind glass : 50 x 65 cm.

1 of 6 woodcuts from the portfolio "Der große Filou" Die Abenteuer des Ithakers Odysseus", 1975; after the book "Der große Filou. The Adventures of the Ithacian Odysseus", 1975. Edge area with slight light damage.

Actually Karl-Heinz Hansen, German painter and wood engraver. "So if Hansen-Bahia's formal language seems "brutal", it is in accordance with the first law, that the substance brings the form with it; and the other, that the form must eat up the substance. This material, however, is monstrous, and the form, like the giant snake after the devouring, is drawn by what it has devoured." (Steffen Andres on Hansen-Bahia, http://www.hansen-bahia.de/).