Lot No. 946


Hubert Schmalix *


(born 1952 in Graz)
‘Roter Boden’, on the reverse signed, dated Schmalix 79, oil on canvas, 261 x 250 cm, on stretcher, (K)

Compare:
(Schmalix), Neue Galerie Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, published by Hatje Cantz, 2007, p.104 + 105

Provenance:
Galerie Buchmann, Basel (label on the reverse)
From an Austrian Collection

It was always difficult to sell me as an Austrian export. I have not conformed to the ‘Austrian character’ at all. For a short time I did once try, with ‘living and dying’ pictures, but never succeeded in being wholehearted about it. So, if anything, they were allegorical decorations with references to vanitas painting.
I never had the anger for ‘actionist’ outbursts. Sex gives me more pleasure than problems…
I have always been attracted to the foreign. That doesn’t mean I constantly examine other cultures. A Giotto is as foreign to me as a Hiroshige.
I study everything and like to surround myself with books, and then I feel like a scientist. The influences in my painting stem from this activity.
Hubert Schmalix - from the literature mentioned above

Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358

elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at

27.11.2014 - 14:00

Realized price: **
EUR 21,250.-
Estimate:
EUR 13,000.- to EUR 20,000.-

Hubert Schmalix *


(born 1952 in Graz)
‘Roter Boden’, on the reverse signed, dated Schmalix 79, oil on canvas, 261 x 250 cm, on stretcher, (K)

Compare:
(Schmalix), Neue Galerie Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, published by Hatje Cantz, 2007, p.104 + 105

Provenance:
Galerie Buchmann, Basel (label on the reverse)
From an Austrian Collection

It was always difficult to sell me as an Austrian export. I have not conformed to the ‘Austrian character’ at all. For a short time I did once try, with ‘living and dying’ pictures, but never succeeded in being wholehearted about it. So, if anything, they were allegorical decorations with references to vanitas painting.
I never had the anger for ‘actionist’ outbursts. Sex gives me more pleasure than problems…
I have always been attracted to the foreign. That doesn’t mean I constantly examine other cultures. A Giotto is as foreign to me as a Hiroshige.
I study everything and like to surround myself with books, and then I feel like a scientist. The influences in my painting stem from this activity.
Hubert Schmalix - from the literature mentioned above

Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358

elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Contemporary Art - Part 2
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 27.11.2014 - 14:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 15.11. - 27.11.2014


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