Lot 3483 - A209 PostWar & Contemporary - Thursday, 20. June 2024, 02.00 PM
MARC-ANTOINE FEHR
(Zurich 1953–lives and works in Pressy)
Les Grelots des chiens de Pressy l. 2006.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right: Marc-Antoine Fehr 2006, as well as signed and dated again on the reverse: Marc-Antoine Fehr 2006.
220 × 300 cm.
Provenance:
- Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva (verso with the label).
- Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above gallery.
Marc-Antoine Fehr's works are influenced by everyday life. Thematically, he cultivates the classic genres of still lifes, portraits, certain angles of interiors and landscapes. He makes his surroundings visible and gives simple, concrete situations a presence. For Fehr, the meaningful can scarcely be separated from the everyday and the banal, for the representational in all its materiality has too much meaning for that. His classic figurative themes and formulations may indeed hark back to the early 19th century, to the Romantic period, and thus set him apart from the contemporary themes of his time, but his approach is nevertheless very contemporary. He favours monumental formats. The pictorial motifs he chooses are not subject to any hierarchy. On the contrary, Fehr prefers to disrupt hierarchies by, for example, reversing the proportions and depicting the large as small and the small as large.
After graduating from high school, Marc-Antoine Fehr moved from Zurich to Burgundy, to his parents' holiday home. The name of the secluded little village where the villa is located is reflected in the title of our present painting - Pressy. The country house is surrounded by a park. The rural tranquillity of the place and the rooms of the villa are Fehr's source of inspiration.
After graduating from high school, Marc-Antoine Fehr moved from Zurich to Burgundy, to his parents' holiday home. The name of the secluded little village where the villa is located is reflected in the title of our present painting - Pressy. The country house is surrounded by a park. The rural tranquillity of the place and the rooms of the villa are Fehr's source of inspiration.
CHF 8 000 / 10 000 | (€ 8 250 / 10 310)
Sold for CHF 18 750 (including buyer’s premium)
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