Michael Bauer - Under the Influence London Tuesday, December 9, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Hotel, London

  • Literature

    Germania, Saatchi Gallery, p. 99, published by Jonathan Cape, 2008

  • Catalogue Essay

    Michael Bauer offers deformity as a platform for unequivocal beauty by using the qualities of abstract painting as a deviation of representational portraiture. Traces of recognisable features, such as eyes and hands give uneasy relation to smears, scabby encrustations, and fluid brush marks, each rendered with a pristine delicacy. Offset by harlequin ornamentation and elegant touches of primavera colour, Bauer’s reductive palette creates an antiquarian reverence, setting his absurd conception as an icon of protracted contemplation.

191

Bad Harvest

2008
oil on canvas
160 x 130 cm (62 7/8 x 51 1/8 in.)
Signed and dated 'Michael Bauer 2007/8' on the reverse.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 ♠†

Sold for £6,875

Contact Specialist
Tamila Kerimova
Head of Under the Influence
+44 207 318 4065

Under the Influence

London Auction 10 December 2014 2pm