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Dick Ket AUCTION RECORDS
1902 - 1940. Known for: Painting.
Dick Ket was born in 1902. Although Ket's first paintings are impressionist in style, he was decisively influenced by the art of Neue Sachlichkeit in 1929 and, from then on, he painted in a magical... Read full biography
Dick Ket was born in 1902. Although Ket's first paintings are impressionist in style, he was decisively influenced by the art of Neue Sachlichkeit in 1929 and, from then on, he painted in a magical realist style. His meticulously composed and rendered still lifes feature favourite objects such as... Read full biography
Dick Ket was born in 1902. Although Ket's first paintings are impressionist in style, he was decisively influenced by the art of Neue Sachlichkeit in 1929 and, from then on, he painted in a magical realist style. His meticulously composed and rendered still lifes feature favourite objects such as bottles, an empty bowl, eggs and musical instruments. Ket juxtaposed these objects in angular arrangements, seen from a high viewpoint, their cast shadows creating emphatic diagonals. These... Read full biography
Dick Ket was born in 1902. Although Ket's first paintings are impressionist in style, he was decisively influenced by the art of Neue Sachlichkeit in 1929 and, from then on, he painted in a magical realist style. His meticulously composed and rendered still lifes feature favourite objects such as bottles, an empty bowl, eggs and musical instruments. Ket juxtaposed these objects in angular arrangements, seen from a high viewpoint, their cast shadows creating emphatic diagonals. These compositions reveal the influence of Cubism filtered through Cassandre's posters, which are frequently depicted in Ket's paintings. Another source of inspiration came from early Dutch painting, which Ket admired for its atmosphere of austere reverence that he... Read full biography
Dick Ket was born in 1902. Although Ket's first paintings are impressionist in style, he was decisively influenced by the art of Neue Sachlichkeit in 1929 and, from then on, he painted in a magical realist style. His meticulously composed and rendered still lifes feature favourite objects such as bottles, an empty bowl, eggs and musical instruments. Ket juxtaposed these objects in angular arrangements, seen from a high viewpoint, their cast shadows creating emphatic diagonals. These compositions reveal the influence of Cubism filtered through Cassandre's posters, which are frequently depicted in Ket's paintings. Another source of inspiration came from early Dutch painting, which Ket admired for its atmosphere of austere reverence that he called its "intrusive" quality. Ket completed approximately 140 paintings, including forty self-portraits. As a... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeStilleven met flessen en zalfpotje (Still life with bottles and ointment jar)
Dick Ket Auction: 09/22/2021 - 10/6/2021Lot: 31Subscribe or get free alerts
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