MODERN ART + DESIGN - Bruun Rasmussen

638 CD
KURT TRAMPEDACH
b. Hillerød 1943
"Jeg gik mig over sø og land" (I travelled over Land and
Sea), c. 1984. Signed Trampedach, Pays Basque. Executed
at Broome Street, New York. Oil on canvas. 296 x 248 cm.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present
owner. Not previously offered for sale.
Monumental paintings from Kurt Trampedach's New Yorker
years are something of a rarity on the Danish art market, as the
majority of these works were exhibited and sold through Allan
Stone Gallery in New York.
"Jeg gik mig over sø og land" (I travelled over sea and land)
refers quite literally to the shift in Kurt Trampedach's life and
art which occurred around the time of his move to the French
Basque Country in 1980, and as a result of the even greater
distance he placed between himself and Denmark when he left
for New York in 1983. His paintings of that period - this one
included - mark a new start in Trampedach's career - mentally,
motif-wise and in terms of his use of colour, which now
becomes intense and glowing. The work up for auction offers a
double vision, with a physical effect on the beholder due to its
sizable dimensions. In the depth (and looked at from a distance)
is a retrospective, thoughtful character, who insistently seeks
the beholder's gaze over his shoulder. In the foreground (seen
close up) figure and architecture studies as well as texts with
reference to the artist's new surroundings and world of motifs
in the Basque Country appear: the house in Sare (Sara), the
mountain La Rhune (Larrun), New [York], animals and people.
An immensely personal account of his travels through time and
continents. DKK 400,000 / € 54,000
52 BRUUN RASMUSSEN BREDGADE AUCTION 831