JULIAN SCHNABEL | RECEIVERSHIP (FROM "ORNAMENTAL DESPAIR")

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March 7, 07:42 PM GMT

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50,000 - 70,000 USD

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JULIAN SCHNABEL

b.1951

RECEIVERSHIP (FROM "ORNAMENTAL DESPAIR")


signed, titled and dated summer 1980 on the reverse

oil and paper collage on canvas

90 by 84 in. (228.6 by 213.3 cm.)

Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Acquired from the above by the present owner in November 1986

Julian Schnabel truly broke into the art scene in the early 1980s with his “plate paintings” – large-scale paintings created on broken ceramic plates. This work is of that period, and was painted in the same year as his inclusion in the Venice Biennale with Anselm Kiefer and George Baselitz. Indeed, Receivership From Ornamental Despair calls to mind the works of Schnabel’s German Neo-Expressionist peers Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and Albert Oehlen. Here, Schnabel offers a hybrid of figuration and abstraction, line and form.