Gerard Westermann (1880-1971)
Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf
1940
Oil on panel
40.5 x 23.5 cm
In excellent condition
Signed and dated lower left
 
Westermann used a dark brown wooden panel on which he applied the white of the snow and the figures. By scratching the tree trunk edge and branches with the back of his brush, he creates the suggestion of a winter forest landscape with "real wooden trees" which he has strikingly depicted in an original manner