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Amongst streaks of white and gauzy cerulean, dark line drawings in charcoal give Miquel Barceló’s Ull de Perdiu, 2004, its title. Directly, it translates to "partridge’s eye" in Catalan, and it is also the name of a fig variety from Catalunya. Figs appear scatted across the canvas alongside a partridge with an exaggerated neck in the left corner in near-surrealist combination of subjects.
Born in Felanitx, Majorca in 1957, Barceló’s work follows in the tradition of Catalan artists such as Joan Miró with its flat, multi-focal composition removed from specificities of time and space. His choice of fruit and fowl as subject matter also pays homage to Spanish still life paintings of pantry items, or bodegónes, although wholly reimagined. Instead of being neatly arranged on tables or in bunches, Barceló’s subjects are strewn across the canvas in a contemporary take on paintings such as Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit, 1602.
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit, 1602, Museo del Prado, Madrid. Image: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY Ull de Perdiu also draws upon another lifelong interest of the artist—his preoccupation with water. Barceló’s childhood terrain consisted of cliffs and caves next to the sea, which would come to serve as inspiration for his vivid blue paintings. Barceló’s seascapes seem to blend sky and water, cloud and foam, creating an aura of transience. While the composition of Ull de Perdiu is removed from reality, its atmospheric quality and rich tonality conveys a lush seascape and is emblematic of the artist’s oeuvre.
The year Ull de Perdiu was created was a pivotal period for the artist. In this year Barceló became the youngest living contemporary artist to exhibit work at the Louvre in Paris with a series of watercolors illustrating Dante’s Divine Comedy. This moment also represented a significant juncture in the artist’s career when his paintings became increasingly simplified, veering away from narrative elements to focus on the textural and material possibilities of paint.
Barceló is known for the physicality of his painting, which is exemplified in Ull de Perdiu. White impasto peaks leap from the surface of the canvas while brown-green patches of underpainting are revealed at the edges. The heavily layered, richly worked media creates a sense of bursting well-suited to the brimful composition. Movement is also essential to Barceló’s works. In an interview in 2021, the artist mused how painting is akin to snorkeling: “you are floating and you go inside and you come back, and you go inside and you go back up. To me it is a bit like that. This physicality is very important in my work.”i Ull de Perdiu is exemplary of this: from the white paint pulled across the base, to the thickly applied textural passages, to the charcoal outlines of the fruit and game, the artist’s touch is palpable throughout.
i Miquel Barceló, quoted in Alain Elkann, “Interview with Miquel Barceló,” Alain Elkann Interviews, December 12, 2021, online.
Provenance
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012Exhibited
New York, C&M Arts, Miquel Barceló, January 25–March 5, 2005, no. 4, pp. 8, 16–17, 47 (studio view illustrated p. 8; illustrated p. 17)
Artist Biography
Miquel Barceló
Spanish • 1957
Drawing inspiration from work by Diego Velázquez and art-making practices of the Avant-garde, Miquel Barceló is perhaps most popular for his hybridization of traditional Spanish figurative aesthetics and thick, abstract brushstrokes. Barceló is inherently drawn to that which is multimedia, having received training in installation work, painting and ceramic. This ability to work across various mediums comes from the artist's hunger for travel and exploring new lands.
Currently based between Mallorca, Mali and Paris, Barceló incorporates the visual aesthetics of his disparate countries seamlessly into his work. The artist's concern involves how to translate different modes of travel and culture into art-making. One recurring topic in his body of work is the ocean — the ultimate symbol of movement, displacement and the unknown.
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Ull de Perdiu
signed, titled and dated "ULL de PERDIU Barceló 2004" on the reverse
mixed media on canvas
63 x 76 3/4 in. (160 x 194.9 cm)
Executed in 2004.
Estimate
$150,000 - 250,000
Sold for $177,800
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Pat Steir
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Haley with Melon
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Study for Review
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Heidi Hahn
Folded Venus / Pomaded Sweater #3
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Carol Bove
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Isa Genzken
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Günther Förg
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Study for Negro Sunshine #70
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Mirror Drawing #9
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Jenny Holzer
Survival: Hide under water…
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American Tan VI
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Richard Prince
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KAWS
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Peter Halley
Spell
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Anke Weyer
Eye Beep
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373
Miquel Barceló
Ull de Perdiu
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Nicola De Maria
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Barry X Ball
Perfect Forms
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376
Michal Rovner
Mathematics 3
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Pat Steir
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Amy Sillman
Word of Mouth
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Katherine Bradford
Mother Ship
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380
Katherine Bradford
Runner At Rest
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Genieve Figgis
The Last Night
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Shara Hughes
Untitled
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383
Awol Erizku
Arrangement for the historians who’ve re-casted Egypt in an African Context
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Ariana Papademetropoulos
Untitled
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Raelis Vasquez
Me Siento Hoy
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387
Alake Shilling
Bearly Hanging On
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388
Mario Ayala
Bad Boy
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Danica Lundy
Press Here, Open, Eject
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Jenny Morgan
Resolution
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Caroline Absher
Freeing the Potted Plants
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Mosie Romney
Award Winning Wisdom
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Cornelius Annor
Anigye
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395
Emmanuel Taku
Empress of the Night
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Nate Lowman
Untitled
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Oscar Murillo
Untitled
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Ludovic Nkoth
Item #57
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400
Milo Matthieu
Miss Congeniality.II
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John Currin
Untitled
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402
Elizabeth Peyton
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Antony Gormley
Learning to think VI
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Huma Bhabha
Untitled
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Vik Muniz
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Raymond Pettibon
Untitled
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Martin Kippenberger
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Martin Kippenberger
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Thomas Scheibitz
Flyer
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Katherine Bernhardt
Doritos + Socks + Basketballs
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Sarah Crowner
Dichotomic Organization, 1959 (Blue)
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Petra Cortright
boy+free+sex+storiesboylink
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Petra Cortright
free metallica wallpaper
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414
RETNA
This is Show Business
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Jordi Ribes
The Slide
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Jon Rafman
New Age Demanded (Twistface Pink)
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