Ernst Fuchs *
(Vienna 1930–2015)
“Big Sue”, signed, dated Ernst Fuchs 1973, on the reverse signed, dated, titled Ernst Fuchs 1973 “Big Sue” Ernst Fuchs, egg tempera, resin oil on canvas over board, 100 x 59 cm, framed
Full-page colour ill.:
Fuchs über Ernst Fuchs, Bilder und Zeichnungen von 1945–1976,
R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1977, p. 168
Provenance:
Private Collection, Switzerland
It has always seemed to me that there was an inextricable contradiction between the incessant creative process, which devours all available time and leaves little room for hesitation, and the analytical, epistemological reflection that could follow this creation. From where do we get the time if not coerced? Even though one often searches for meaning and resolution in the picture puzzles viewed, pressed by the questions of friends or opponents, the creation of these pictures requires the devotion of all available time, for viewing and making visible is more important than interpretation. Interpretation comes eventually, it follows at some point and is always new, different, and if I think of the many contradictory interpretations of the pictures by my beloved Hieronymus Bosch, I become anxious, and yet also oddly at ease at the thought of how my work will be interpreted. For it is not that I ever fully know what I am creating, and never am I able to commit myself to a single interpretation. ...
From the cited literature
Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder
Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358
elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
26.11.2019 - 17:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 56,550.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 35,000.- to EUR 60,000.-
Ernst Fuchs *
(Vienna 1930–2015)
“Big Sue”, signed, dated Ernst Fuchs 1973, on the reverse signed, dated, titled Ernst Fuchs 1973 “Big Sue” Ernst Fuchs, egg tempera, resin oil on canvas over board, 100 x 59 cm, framed
Full-page colour ill.:
Fuchs über Ernst Fuchs, Bilder und Zeichnungen von 1945–1976,
R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1977, p. 168
Provenance:
Private Collection, Switzerland
It has always seemed to me that there was an inextricable contradiction between the incessant creative process, which devours all available time and leaves little room for hesitation, and the analytical, epistemological reflection that could follow this creation. From where do we get the time if not coerced? Even though one often searches for meaning and resolution in the picture puzzles viewed, pressed by the questions of friends or opponents, the creation of these pictures requires the devotion of all available time, for viewing and making visible is more important than interpretation. Interpretation comes eventually, it follows at some point and is always new, different, and if I think of the many contradictory interpretations of the pictures by my beloved Hieronymus Bosch, I become anxious, and yet also oddly at ease at the thought of how my work will be interpreted. For it is not that I ever fully know what I am creating, and never am I able to commit myself to a single interpretation. ...
From the cited literature
Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder
Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358
elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Modern Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 26.11.2019 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 16.11. - 26.11.2019 |
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