Caroline Gentsch
Director
Lot 41AR
ART & LANGUAGE(1968)Lovely Hostage I
28 April 2025, 16:00 CEST
Brussels, Chaussée de Charleroi€5,000 - €7,000
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ART & LANGUAGE (1968)
Lovely Hostage I
2016
Signé, titré et daté au dos
Technique mixte sur toile
Plaque en verre
Getekend, getiteld en gedateerd op de achterkant
Gemengde techniek op canvas
Glazen plaat
Signed, titled and dated on the back
Mixed media on canvas
Glass plate
65 x 78 x 5 cm
2016
Signé, titré et daté au dos
Technique mixte sur toile
Plaque en verre
Getekend, getiteld en gedateerd op de achterkant
Gemengde techniek op canvas
Glazen plaat
Signed, titled and dated on the back
Mixed media on canvas
Glass plate
65 x 78 x 5 cm
Footnotes
Provenance / Herkomst
Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke
Collection privée / privécollectie, Bruxelles
David Batchelor: This series of Hostage paintings can be broken down into four more or less distinct elements - the landscape, the coloured band, the areas of compressed paint, and the glass — which, in the finished works are made to interact or interfere with one another. I would like to talk about these elements, starting with the landscape. I know the motif derives from an actual row of trees in a nearby field, but in the paintings they seem to exist more as a landscape token, a landscape-in-quotation-marks, than the result of direct observation. This is partly because the motif has been repeated so many times.
Mel Ramsden: We had always had an interest in painting something which has a certain local existence - something somehow incompetent in respect of a secular, cosmopolitan, modernism. Interview with Art & Language. A Conversation in the Studio About Painting: David Batchelor