Lot 182
INTRIGUES
1950
Oil on canvas
134 x 185 cm (h x w)
Lower left "Endre Nemes 1950"
| 15 510 €
| 15 510 €
Endre Nemes, born Endre Nágel, was a painter, graphic artist, set designer and educator of Jewish descent. In his youth he lived in Slovakia, in the 1930s he studied and lived in Prague and during the war he found asylum in Sweden, where he then spent most of his life. He earned an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University and became known for several major public works of art and was a pioneer in Sweden in the use of enamels in public art - when he designed the façade of the city building in Alafors and the Zodiac clock in central Västertorp. His name is undoubtedly one of the greatest painters of his time. Sophisticated compositions of his imaginative works bring with them both a deep human feeling and refined color, as well as the disintegration of value charts, drama and disappointment. The deconstructed figures in Intrigue open their insides and show the observer the complex and changing processes and motivations that are normally hidden beneath the surface. The work Intrigue was auctioned at Endre Nemes' estate estate in 1999 in Stockholm Auktiosverk, cat. No. 103.
Published:
Jančár, I .: Endre Nemes, Bratislava City Gallery, 2007, p. 67.
Millroth, T .: Endre Nemes, Stockholm, 1985, p. 130.
Issued:
ENDRE NEMES - AFTER 35 YEARS AGAIN IN SLOVAKIA, Bratislava City Gallery, Pálffy Palace, 30 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
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