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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Klasen, Peter
Born 1935 Lübeck, lives and works in Vincennes.
«Volant/Serrage-Lock».
Assemblage made of acrylic, rope, cable, metal bracket and steering wheel on canvas. Verso signed, dated 1989 and titled. Verso on the stretcher two printed labels of the Gallery Louis Carré, Paris, one printed with the work's data and the other numbered «D.7418» by hand.
H 162, W 130 cm (support). Original frame.
Peter Klasen is an important member of the «Figuration Narrative». Typical of his works are acrylic paintings in combination with collage or assemblage elements, the division of his paintings into zones as well as the motifs that have recurred from the 1960s onwards and various fittings such as sockets, switches or even painted or applied taps. With this composition, the so-called «modelled painting», Klasen achieves a high degree three-dimensional effect of his depicted objects, which are characterised by a cool and photorealistic formal language.
Provenance: Gallery Louis Carré, Paris; private collection Paris.
Literature: Pascale Le Thorel, Peter Klasen Oeuvres 1959 - 2009, Paris 2009, p. 181.

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