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Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)
Lot 231

Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)

EON

Fermé12 February 2016

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GBP 37,500

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Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)
EON
signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'EON + - aug 72 jef Verheyen L'homme s'allume une lumière dans la nuit quand ses yeux s'eteignent' (on the reverse); inscribed 'zij zien met hun oren' (on the overlap)
acrylic on canvas
59 x 59in. (150 x 150cm.)
Painted in 1972

Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.

Note du spécialiste

‘A concentration of energies, that due to the organisation of colourful pigments [...] form into images that some hypersensitive people experience as ghosts. Those ghosts are nothing different than a personification that arose from a certain power, so the organized power of colour is energy that is elementary’
(J. Verheyen quoted in Retrospectieve, Jef verheyen, 1932-1984, exh.cat. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop 1994, p. 14).