Lot 3750* - Z41 Prints & Multiples - Saturday, 03. December 2016, 03.30 PM
FRANZ GERTSCH
(Mörigen 1930–lives and works in Rüschegg)
Gelber Enzian (olive).
2003.
Colour woodcut. 13/14. Signed lower right: Franz Gertsch. Image 70 x 56 cm on Kumohadamashi Japan by Heizaburo Iwano 89 x 72 cm.
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Provenance: Purchased by the present owner directly from the artist, since then privately owned Germany.
Catalogue raisonné: No longer at Mason.
The woodcuts by the Swiss artist Franz Gertsch are unique within contemporary print-making. He combines in his print-making oeuvre a quality of monumentality with photo-realism and monochrome tone, and yet creates a new reality.
The large format woodcuts engender monumentality not just with their scale: the choice of motif and the details depicted lend monumentality even to the artist’s small format works. The viewer becomes lost in the precise and meticulous stipple-like grid, which cover his woodcuts. The monochrome tone prevents any kind of distraction, and instead draws one’s focus even deeper into the motif. The different colour variants introduce a painterly aspect to the work after the “technical” process of the woodcut.
Although based on photographs, the artist succeeds in disassociating the motif from reality: by means of the highly intricate technique and the monochrome tone, the familiar motifs are altered in such a way that the viewer has a new visual experience.
Catalogue raisonné: No longer at Mason.
The woodcuts by the Swiss artist Franz Gertsch are unique within contemporary print-making. He combines in his print-making oeuvre a quality of monumentality with photo-realism and monochrome tone, and yet creates a new reality.
The large format woodcuts engender monumentality not just with their scale: the choice of motif and the details depicted lend monumentality even to the artist’s small format works. The viewer becomes lost in the precise and meticulous stipple-like grid, which cover his woodcuts. The monochrome tone prevents any kind of distraction, and instead draws one’s focus even deeper into the motif. The different colour variants introduce a painterly aspect to the work after the “technical” process of the woodcut.
Although based on photographs, the artist succeeds in disassociating the motif from reality: by means of the highly intricate technique and the monochrome tone, the familiar motifs are altered in such a way that the viewer has a new visual experience.
CHF 4 500 / 5 500 | (€ 4 640 / 5 670)
Sold for CHF 5 375 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.