Albert Oehlen - Property from The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium London Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris

  • Catalogue Essay

    Discordant yet refined, [Oehlen’s] abstract paintings are those of an artist in the process of shedding his chrysalis of irony. Looking for vitality in a supposedly atrophied form, Oehlen employs a protean repertoire covering nearly every form of mark-making—drips and doodles, washes and blurs, spray-paint swirls and elaborated brushstrokes—frenetically set into structured grids of white canvas. Hard-edge abstraction and painterly gestures merge with hints of representation, their opacity and murkiness alluding to, but never completely cohering into, legible motifs. This ambiguity is enhanced by the lack of a unifying visual element.
     (João Ribas, Albert Oehlen, in: Time Out, issue 577, October 2006)

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Untitled

1992-2005
Silkscreen, lacquer, spraypaint and oil on canvas.
82 1/2 x 114 in. (209.6 x 289.6 cm).
Signed and dated "A. Oehlen 92/05" on the reverse.

Estimate
£120,000 - 180,000 

Sold for £204,500

Property from The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium

3 Apr 2008, 4pm
London