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$3,500
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Bjarne Melgaard
Price: $3,500-
DETAILS +
- Year: 2009
- Size: Image 29,8 x 29,8, frame 42,7 x 41,3 cm
- Edition: This artwork is unique
- Signature: Signed on the front
- Technique: Colored pencil on paper
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ABOUT ARTWORK +
Since the beginning of his career, Bjarne Melgaard’s art has been full of desire and fearful longings staged somewhere in between fiction and reality. His raw, expressionistic paintings explore themes of discrimination, racism, sadomasochistic homosexuality, drugs, self-destruction, and death – and often incorporate provocative phrases with a confessional quality, revealing desires, fears, violence, and personal anxieties. Melgaard has been described as one of Norway's most important artists, and his works have been collected by major museums such as the MoMA in New York, the MOCA in Los Angeles, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. This drawing is unique, and has been used in later Melgaard lithographies ("Window" # 1, 2 & 3).
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- Excellent condition
- Examined by the present owner, not by professionals
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PROVENANCE +
- Acquired from Greene Naftali Gallery (New York) by the present owner
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How much will you have to pay in total?
Artwork 3,500 Transaction fee, Listir (10%) 350 Shipping Added later Total Price 3,850 Import taxes and payment fees might be added.
$3,500 is a lower price than paid to the New York gallery in 2009. If buying all four drawings (# 1, 2, 3, 4), the total price will be $12,000 ($2,000 reduction). Melgaard's paintings and drawings are consistently available in the secondary markets. Prices have generally ranged from roughly $2,00 to $56,000. Auction history of similar Melgaard artworks (slightly larger aquarells):
