Lot 3474 - A211 PostWar & Contemporary - Thursday, 28. November 2024, 04.00 PM
NICOLAS PARTY
(Lausanne 1980–lives and works in New York)
Untitled. 2003.
Pencil on paper.
Signed lower right: Nicolas Party.
10 × 13.5 cm.
Provenance:
- Private collection Switzerland, acquired directly from the artist.
- Private collection Eric Eriston Winarto, Switzerland, acquired from the above collection in 2010.
Let's get the party started.
True to this catchphrase, Swiss artist Nicolas Party, born in Lausanne in 1980, has established himself as one of the most exciting contemporary artists on the art market in recent years, with works that captivate with their very own unmistakable aesthetic.
With a great feeling for exciting contrasts and, at the same time, a use of gentle colour shading, Party models complex and colourful worlds that immediately cast a spell over the viewer. Partly through the skilful reduction of forms to the essentials and simultaneously extreme complementary contrasts, but partly also through the sheer size of his almost surreal compositions, Nicolas Party transports the viewer into his universe with an ease that impresses and amazes.
The colourfulness and format of the pencil drawing on paper offered here stand in stark contrast to the large-format (canvas) wall works of his international exhibitions. The monochrome colour palette lends the pretty small-format depiction a study-like character, while its formal language bears the typical signature of Party's large-scale work. The combination of figurative elements and abstract forms creates a visual tension even on the small picture surface, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. As they search the meaning in the picture, viewers are invited to immerse themselves in the narrative layers of the work and explore its subtle symbolism. Is Nicolas Party's posed and vignette-like figure a reference to the casually draped nudes of classicism or is the round form on the right a stylised chariot wheel, for example, which is an art-historical reference to medieval depictions of saints with metaphorically charged attributes? The possible interpretations are numerous and make this work an exciting object that can be rediscovered again and again.
True to this catchphrase, Swiss artist Nicolas Party, born in Lausanne in 1980, has established himself as one of the most exciting contemporary artists on the art market in recent years, with works that captivate with their very own unmistakable aesthetic.
With a great feeling for exciting contrasts and, at the same time, a use of gentle colour shading, Party models complex and colourful worlds that immediately cast a spell over the viewer. Partly through the skilful reduction of forms to the essentials and simultaneously extreme complementary contrasts, but partly also through the sheer size of his almost surreal compositions, Nicolas Party transports the viewer into his universe with an ease that impresses and amazes.
The colourfulness and format of the pencil drawing on paper offered here stand in stark contrast to the large-format (canvas) wall works of his international exhibitions. The monochrome colour palette lends the pretty small-format depiction a study-like character, while its formal language bears the typical signature of Party's large-scale work. The combination of figurative elements and abstract forms creates a visual tension even on the small picture surface, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. As they search the meaning in the picture, viewers are invited to immerse themselves in the narrative layers of the work and explore its subtle symbolism. Is Nicolas Party's posed and vignette-like figure a reference to the casually draped nudes of classicism or is the round form on the right a stylised chariot wheel, for example, which is an art-historical reference to medieval depictions of saints with metaphorically charged attributes? The possible interpretations are numerous and make this work an exciting object that can be rediscovered again and again.
CHF 4 000 / 6 000 | (€ 4 120 / 6 190)