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Bjarne Melgaard (b. 1967)
Untitled (Dead Hooker)

oil on canvas
78⅝ x 118⅛in. (199.7 x 300cm.)
Painted in 2007
Provenance
Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.
Exhibited
Gstaad, Patricia Low Contemporary, mommy’s boy and daddy’s girl, 2007.
London, Saatchi Gallery, Painters' Painters, 2016-2017 (illustrated in colour, pp. 106-107).
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‘I was a fan of Artaud and Jean Dubuffet and all those people. I have long been interested in the relationship between the so-called abnormal mind and creativity' Bjarne Melgaard
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