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Lot 93AR,W

Karl Weschke
(German, 1925-2005)
Quiet Landscape 101.6 x 172.8 cm. (40 x 68 in.)

28 May 2014, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£12,000 - £18,000

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Karl Weschke (German, 1925-2005)

Quiet Landscape
signed twice 'KM Weschke/K.M.W' (verso); inscribed and dated 'QUIET Landscape 1958 finished september' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
101.6 x 172.8 cm. (40 x 68 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist's Estate

Literature
Jeremy Lewison, Karl Weschke, Portrait of an Artist, Tate Publishing, St Ives, 1998, p.55 (ill.b&w)

'An early painting, Quiet Landscape 1958, suggests a hillside rendered in bold, flat shapes of thick impasto. The browns, blacks and subdued yellow which form the basis of this work have remained Weschke's favoured colours. He adopted them partly because he could not afford the more expensive colours such as cobalt blue, and partly because he had been informed by his paint supplier that the earth colours would last indefinitely, whereas lighter colours would fade. The boldness and flatness of Quiet Landscape suggest the influence of the Abstract Expressionists, particularly Motherwell whose work Weschke admired in 1956 at the Tate Gallery, but the thick impasto is also characteristic of the painting of some of his peers, among others, Auerbach and Kossoff.' (Jeremy Lewison, Karl Weschke, Portrait of an Artist, Tate Publishing, St Ives, 1998, p.54-55).

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