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PER KIRKEBY (1938-2018)
Den blå time (The Blue Hour) (Modification)
signed, titled and dated 'Den blå time/ Per Kirkeby 1975' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas on found painting, in artist's frame
canvas: 33 x 24cm.
overall: 35.5 x 26.5cm.
Executed in 1975
Provenance
Birte Inge Christensen and John Hunov Collection, Copenhagen.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Per Kirkeby. Übermalungen 1964-1984, exh. cat., Munich, Kunstraum, 1984-1985, no. 6.
B. Hessellund and F. Rerman Frederiksen, Hjælp! Jeg er samler. Birte Inge Christensen og John Hunov's Samlinger, Randers 1994, p. 26, no. 175.
A. Hejlskov Larsen, Per Kirkeby Paintings 1957-1977, Cologne 2004, p. 360, no. O 2 (illustrated, p. 300).
Hvad skovsøen gemte. Jorns modifikationer & Kirkebys overmalinger, exh. cat., Silkeborg, Museum Jorn, 2011, no. 37 (illustrated, p. 88).
Exhibited
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Per Kirkeby, Bilder. Backsteinskulpturen. Bücher, 1977.
Special notice
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