1959 -
Austrian
Ohne Titel
oil on canvas
on verso signed and dated 2006
74 3/4 x 63 in, 189.9 x 160 cm
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000 CAD
Sold for: $46,250
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Austria
Private Collection, Austria
Sold sale of Zeitgenössische Kunst, im Kinsky Auktionhaus, May 10, 2011, lot 141
Collection of Joey & Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto
This canvas by Herbert Brandl features a bluish teal ground populated by pale yellow brushstrokes sweeping from side to side. As the colours intermingle and separate, a veil of drips wanders down, slowly dissolving into (the ether of) the background. Brandl’s painterly mastery saturates this work. With a few simple, confident and elegant strokes, he creates an abstract form which can be almost instantly recognized as light reflecting on water. Light never materializes into an object, it occurs in time; and on the surface of water it always shimmers, flickering from one form to another. Brandl’s decades long preoccupation with pictorial form and the conceptual underpinnings of the image is clearly visible in this work. Here, Brandl captures something essential in an almost monumental format, and presents it as something still wavering between the abstract and concrete. Like an illusion or an apparition, it appears unmistakable, yet one cannot be sure of its true nature. Brandl’s work has been exhibited all over the world, including Biennale de Paris (1985), the São Paulo Art Biennale (1989), Documenta IX (1992), Kunsthalle Basel (1999) and the Venice Biennale (2007).
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