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Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)
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signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'EON + - aug 72 jef Verheyen L'homme s'allume une lumière dans la nuit quand ses yeux s'eteignent' (on the reverse); inscribed 'zij zien met hun oren' (on the overlap)
acrylic on canvas
59 x 59in. (150 x 150cm.)
Painted in 1972

Provenance

Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.

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Lot Essay

‘A concentration of energies, that due to the organisation of colourful pigments [...] form into images that some hypersensitive people experience as ghosts. Those ghosts are nothing different than a personification that arose from a certain power, so the organized power of colour is energy that is elementary’
(J. Verheyen quoted in Retrospectieve, Jef verheyen, 1932-1984, exh.cat. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop 1994, p. 14).

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