Born in Germany and now based in London, Volker Hüller creates abstracted portraits that combine geometric rigour with unstable flashes of figuration. Evoking the work of Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia and Paul Klee, his works have been described by the critic Robert Smith as ‘highly reactive’, fluctuating and ‘changing as the light shifts’. Executed in 2009, the present work’s title refers to the 1970 Western film Roy Cult and Winchester Jack (known as Drei Halunken und ein Halleluja in German), yet all sense of meaning and identity is confounded by the layering of monochromatic shapes. The work featured in the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany in 2011; other examples of Hüller's practice are held in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.