Christie's: IMPRESSIONIST, MODERN AND POST WAR ART: Lot 337
Per Kirkeby (b. 1938)
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Untitled oil on canvas 823/4 x 541/8in. (210 x 137.5cm.) PROVENANCE Galerie Werner, Cologne. EXHIBITION Bern, Kunsthalle, Per Kirkeby, 1979. NOTES "I am gradually beginning to realise" Kirkeby once wrote "that all of my paintings have to do with holes, or caves. Holes in matter, like living in a cave and looking out. Or looking into a cave. These weird, vertiginous glances right though solid matter...." This would indicate a romantic tendency in the artist's approach to painting, as in the present work, he evokes Nordic mythology and legends - a world of nature and magical powers. Thus his seemingly abstract paintings are imbued with a sense of the natural world and at the same time a very strong sense of the artist's personal history, his evocations and mythology.
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