The grey man and the coast, 1938
In «der Graue und die Küste», 1938, [The grey man and the coast], a line beginning at the top edge swings back and forth, dividing the painting into horizontal segments.
The «grey man» appears to observe this course, which the title describes as a coast. We too look down on a landscape of fjords far below us, reading the blue surface as sea, the bow-shaped lines as boats, the horizontal bar with three dots in the middle of the painting as a ship.
