Lot 280
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JONATHAN MEESE | Garten Eden II

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jonathan Meese
  • Garten Eden II
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 2004; signed, titled, dated 2004 and variously inscribed on the reverse of each panel
  • oil, metallic paint, paper collage, photographs, resin, plaster and hair on canvas, in three parts
  • each: 209.5 by 140 cm. 82 1/2 by 55 1/8 in.
  • overall: 209.5 by 420 cm. 82 1/2 by 165 3/8 in.

Provenance

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart, June - September 2007, p. 156, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although fails to fully convey the metallic quality of the silver paint. Condition: This work is in very good and original condition. All collaged elements are stable, although there is some lifting to the corners of some. Close inspection reveals some rubbing and wear to the edges of all three canvases. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

“Jonathan Meese has created some of the most intense paintings of this decade […] Even when he seems to be conducting a very lyrical dialogue with an artist such as Balthus, the idea surfaces that art is a radical counter-proposition which an artist has to embody in unrelenting loner-fashion.”  Robert Fleck cited in: Exh. Cat., Vienna, Essl Museum, Jonathan Meese: Fräulein Atlantis, 2007, pp. 130-31.