While the Musée d’Orsay devotes a retrospective to the famous Norwegian painter, three of his canvases are exhibited opposite his compatriot Anna-Eva Bergman.
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Faced with the large exhibition that the Musée d’Orsay devotes to Edvard Munch (1863-1944), the Jérôme Poggi gallery offers a miniature format, almost a counterpoint, with three rather soothed canvases, focused on nature, in dialogue With a set of painted and engraved works of his compatriot Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1987). By the way, the gallery is therefore based on a double Norwegian news in Paris, since the Museum of Modern Art in Paris is preparing a retrospective by Anna-Eva Bergman for spring 2023.
Beyond the astonishment to find Munch in a contemporary art gallery, there is that of finding several of his paintings for sale simultaneously. It is not so frequent, and it is even exceptional in France. If the artist was a critical and financial success during his lifetime, he gave his whole fund to the city of Oslo when he died to try to protect his work, while the country was occupied by Nazi Germany. Ten years ago, a version of his cry (a pastel on cardboard from 1895), an icon of art history and work heralding German expressionism, had become at Sotheby’s the most work of art Dear never sold at auction, at 119 million euros. The three paintings here belong to the same Norwegian collector (also multiplier at the Musée d’Orsay), and the gallery communicates the prices.
male seasons
Early Spring (1903-05), the oldest, is the most expensive, at 2.7 million euros. It shows a very architectural forest, where a path deviates out of frame as in the cry, with a trunk placed on the ground. “A blue line underlines the treetops. Nature is a temple for Munch, and the forest is made here cathedral. The blue clouds with nucleic shapes, above, echo the motifs of Anna-Eva Bergman in the Exhibition “, underlines Jérôme Poggi. Passionate about the Nordic painter, the art historian, who opened his gallery in 2009, had published in 2011 a collection of Munch’s writings (ed. The Presses du Réel).
The bright two boys on the beach (1911), which has the distinction of having canvas left raw, is announced at 2.4 million. The story of the painting dates back to the summer of 1907. Edvard Munch painted on the beach a series of male seaside scenes, whose famous men bathed, preserved today in Helsinki and presented in Orsay. The inscription of the bodies in nature fascinates Munch, and the following year he added four components with him on the one hand childhood and adolescence, on the other, the great age and an old man, thus representing all the stages of a man’s life. This is a posterior version of childhood. The gallery will present the table at the new Paris+ fair by Art Basel, in October, in a collective hanging on the theme of the shore, dear to Munch.
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