80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Christopher Le Brun
Study for Sacred Desert 1
Lot Closed
February 8, 09:57 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Christopher Le Brun
b. 1951 Portsmouth, UK
Study for Sacred Desert 1
Painted in 2013.
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30 1/4 in (56 x 77 cm)
Framed: 24 x 34 x 2 in. (61 x 86.4 x 5 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Albertz Benda, New York
Christopher Le Brun is a painter, printmaker and sculptor. By his early career, he was already a double prize winner at the John Moores exhibitions (1978 & 1980), and showing in the Venice Biennale (1982) and the ground-breaking Zeitgeist at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin (1982). His work is characterized by an adherence to the essential values of touch, light, space and colour while maintaining a questioning and strongly individual stance in relation to contemporary art history. His art is rooted in the long tradition of the English appreciation of landscape and nature - whether expressed in painting, poetry or music - which provides a common ground frequently referred to throughout his work.
His work can be found in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate, the V&A and the British Museum, London; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.