2016 May | Hodgins Art Auctions

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signed & dated; titled on gallery label verso
Provenance: Estate of Dr. Howard Freeze, Calgary; Forum Gallery, New York/Los Angeles

Note: this painting was chosen to illustrate the 2002 exhibition poster for the Forum Gallery, New York and is accompanied by a signed copy of the book “Odd Nerdrum Paintings” by Jan-Erik Ebbestad Hansen.

In the forward to “Odd Nerdrum – Paintings” American art critic Donald Kuspit writes “Again and again, Odd Nerdrum paints isolated figures – figures ensconced in their isolation, one might say. That is, they accept it as their fate, never questioning it because they know no alternative to it. It is this isolation that has turned them in upon themselves, and twisted them out of emotional shape…….Many of Nerdrum’s figures simply watch and wait in the void, as though in anticipation of an attack. But where is the enemy? There is no need for one: they have already defeated themselves. Nerdrum’s pictures seem to illustrate the existential proverb that we are our own worst enemy”.

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signed & dated
Provenance: Estate of Ian McLaren Cook, Calgary
Note: Robinson was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. He first visited Paris in 1876, exhibiting at the Salon a year later. He returned to France in 1884, where he would live for the next eight years, moving in next door to the famous impressionist.
Reference: “Moonlit Farmhouse” (1892 oil on panel) of the same image (sold at Christies New York, 2007)

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signed; titled verso

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signed & titled
Note: Tidemanis studied in the United States before returning to Europe where he graduated from the Anvers Royal Academy of Fine Art. He became a decorated artist who achieved success abroad. He emigrated to Germany, Switzerland, then finally Canada, where he died (in Toronto). His works are found in major museums and private collections internationally.

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initialed & dated; titled on gallery label verso

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signed; titled on gallery label verso

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signed
Provenance: Estate of Ian McLaren Cook, Calgary

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signed; titled on gallery label versoProvenance: Estate of Ian McLaren Cook, Calgary; Gainsborough Galleries, Calgary

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signed; titled & dated on artist’s label verso