Adrian Ghenie

Private Collection, Europe

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although there are fewer blue undertones in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals some very light and unobtrusive wear to the corner tips. Extremely close inspection reveals a minute and unobtrusive speck of loss to the upper left quadrant, approximately 20cm from the left edge and 5cm from the upper edge. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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“[My mother] lived in the worst period of the 20th century, but when I asked [her] about it she said that it was great because it was her youth. I realized that people’s perspectives about history are automatically cool. And it’s very sick. They don’t care that it was the Stalin years. They just remember that they were young and they had this energy and they fell in love.”
Adrian Ghenie
in conversation with Rachel Wolff, in: 'IN THE STUDIO: Romanian Painter Adrian Ghenie's Sinister Mythology', Art + Auction, 5 March 2013, online resource