Lot 250

Ivan Ouhel (1945 - 2021) RIPENING

Ouhel's 90s are often referred to as the time of the painting. After a protracted illness that affected him in 1981 and left him out of work for more than a year, he started going on health trips to the sea, and the sun there poured new blood into his veins. It returns in full force, filled with life energy and joyful colors on the palette, and the paintings of the turn of the 80s and 90s are full of juicy fruit, sprouting and summer. A similar composition is offered, for example, by the canvas Time of Plums (1992), and the same thematic group also includes Black Currant (1988), Kiwi (1989), Paprika (1989) and many other paintings. Ivan Ouhel enjoys life to the fullest, painting meetings, picnic blankets, and a thriving, vital landscape. The entire wall of his studio is covered with the colorful prints of his fingers as he impatiently checks if the paint is dry and if he can continue the work. The return to a calm and meditative position occurs at the end of the 90s.