Brave Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1940s.
Patinated walls, aged and rendered, create a textured surface, which frames a barred window. It’s uneven, tonal, and sombre.
Kluge had a fascination for unlikely beauty.
His canny brushwork emphasised the diverse nature of urban surfaces - external walls have never been so captivating.
When in these solitary moments, tucked away from sight, he painted little else but architecture. There’s never a soul present, just the artist, the environment, and his tireless ambition to capture it all.
Signed/dated in the lower left and held within a later frame.
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 19” x 25½” / 48cm x 65cm
Year of creation: 1948
Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.
Condition: Cleaned. Areas of fine and settled craquelure, as you would expect. The paint layer is stable. Frame with various marks and showing its age.
Artist’s auction maximum: £6,156 for ‘Den kejserliga yachten, The Polar Star, i Köpenhamns hamn (1912)’, Oil on canvas, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015.
Our reference: BRV1912
Brave Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1940s.
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Harry Kluge, Courtyard - Antique Oil Painting
