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Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture
Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture episodes
- Fram, 1983Stop 1Like most of Kirkeby’s paintings, Fram is filled with references to both art history and science.2 min
- Untitled, 2009Stop 2Kirkeby was inspired to paint horses by the sixteenth-century woodcuts of the German artist Hans Baldung Grien.2 min
- Regicide at Finderup barn, 1967Stop 3From the late 1960s through the 1970s Kirkeby produced pictures on serially arranged square Masonite panels.1 min
- Untitled, 1982Stop 4Kirkeby's Blackboards a special significance for him. The Blackboards are as much about erasure than about building layers.2 min
- Inventory XX, 2002Stop 5Dorothy Kosinski, Director of The Phillips Collection, discusses Per Kirkeby’s sculpture Inventory XX.2 min
- Large Head, 1984Stop 6Dorothy Kosinski, Director of The Phillips Collection, discusses Per Kirkeby’s sculpture Large Head.2 min
About Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture
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Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture is the most comprehensive survey in the United States to date of works by Scandinavia’s most highly acclaimed living artist, Per Kirkeby (Danish, b. 1938). Equally…
trained as a geologist and an artist, Kirkeby is a painter of eminent sensuality, creating richly layered canvases filled with prodigious detail and animated by an unequaled material quality of color. He is not only a leading painter, sculptor, and printmaker, but also a prolific writer, poet, and filmmaker.