The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is pleased to share the recent inclusion of Untitled (cityscape) from the collection of Mark Callister in the Carl Heidenreich catalogue raisonné. The painting previously belonged to a Salt Lake City family and shares the style of a number of landscapes and cityscapes Heidenreich painted during the 1930s.

The painting shows a brightly-colored view of a street scene, which exhibits the influence of Fauvism and the style of painter Raoul Dufy on Heidenreich. This style was particularly evident in his work while in exile in Europe from 1934-41. However, this painting is not dated and its provenance is difficult to gauge. Other paintings of French and Spanish villages share the palette and deconstruction of space apparent in Untitled (cityscape).

Here, trees along with a streetlamp divide the righthand-side of the composition into vertical bars of beige, yellow, and ultramarine while buildings and vivid blocks of reddish-orange peek through the trees. A simplified silhouette of a woman leads the eye down the path toward seated figures on a bench and into the distance.

Heidenreich’s body of work during the 1930s is difficult to draw overarching conclusions about, as Gabriele Saure writes. “The quantity of these remaining works—both those of the pre-1933 period and those from the period of his Spanish and French exile—simply is too small to permit any definitive statements to be made.”

Hopefully, as the Carl Heidenreich catalogue raisonné grows, we will be able to locate more work from this period to begin to expand the scholarship on the work Heidenreich produced during exile in Europe in what was one of his most itinerant and politically-involved decades.

Carl Heidenreich, Untitled (cityscape), n.d. Gouache on paper. 18 x 24 inches. Collection of Mark Callister. — Carl Heidenreich, *Untitled (cityscape),* n.d. Gouache on paper. 18 x 24 inches. Collection of Mark Callister.