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Odd Nerdrum
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description
- Odd Nerdrum
- The Memory Hall
signed and dated Nerdrum 85-2000 on the reverse
oil on canvas
- 140 by 116.5cm., 55 by 46in.
Provenance
Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1987
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1987
Exhibited
Long Beach, University Art Museum, California State University; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Wisconsin, Madison Art Centre & Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Odd Nerdrum, 1988-1989, illustrated in the catalogue
Literature
Richard Vine, Odd Nerdrum: Paintings, Sketches and Drawings, Painter Provocateur, Oslo, 2004, pp. 110-111, illustrated in colour
Condition
Original canvas. There are scattered flecks of retouching visible under ultraviolet light, notably to the figure's neck and above their head. This work is in very good condition and ready to hang. Held in a simple, striated, carved wood frame.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Painted in 1985.
Odd Nerdrum is the leading figurative Norwegian painter of his generation. Though Nerdrum went to art school in Oslo, and later was a pupil in Düsseldorf under Joseph Beuys, his work has never sat comfortably in any of the schools of Modernism that have prevailed during his forty year career as an artist. Nerdrum's heavy painterly style, largely self taught, which enables him to capture so brilliantly the nature of things on canvas, has his champions situating him as a contemporary successor to such Renaissance masters as Caravaggio and Rembrandt. In a contemporary art scene that gives precedence to abstraction and conceptualism, these seventeenth-century parallels serve to position Nerdrum as a reactionary against the establishment.
Nerdrum's paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis and The National Gallery in Oslo.
Odd Nerdrum is the leading figurative Norwegian painter of his generation. Though Nerdrum went to art school in Oslo, and later was a pupil in Düsseldorf under Joseph Beuys, his work has never sat comfortably in any of the schools of Modernism that have prevailed during his forty year career as an artist. Nerdrum's heavy painterly style, largely self taught, which enables him to capture so brilliantly the nature of things on canvas, has his champions situating him as a contemporary successor to such Renaissance masters as Caravaggio and Rembrandt. In a contemporary art scene that gives precedence to abstraction and conceptualism, these seventeenth-century parallels serve to position Nerdrum as a reactionary against the establishment.
Nerdrum's paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis and The National Gallery in Oslo.