Live Auction 3049Post-War and Contemporary Art
Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)
Lot 52

Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)

Untitled

Closed5 November 2014

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EUR 145,500

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Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)
Untitled
signed and dated 'jef verheyen 60' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
101.5 x 81.5 cm. (including artist's frame)
Painted in 1960

Galerie Bernard, Grenchen.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner.

Specialist note

'The loss of gravity, the dissolving of contrast, reducing painting to its essential appearance, brought the only dimension: the power of colour. Light is the essential mechanism, colour is the pictorial dynamic, the broadest, most essential transcendence. The colour revelation is the awareness. Essentialism is the alfa and omega of the pictorial existence.'
(Jef Verheyen in 1962 quoted in: Retrospectieve, Jef Verheyen, 1932-1984, exh.cat. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop 1994, p. 40)