"The First Decadent: JK Huysmans"
Signed and dated 2011 on verso. Canvas 213 x 183.
Provenance
Carl Kostyál, London.
Private collection, Sweden.
Exhibitions
Carl Kostyál, London, "A Science of Friendship, Matias Faldbakken, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Sebastian Helling", 11 - 31 October 2011.
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Gardar Eide Einarsson (b. 1976, Oslo) lives and works in New York and Tokyo. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Art in Bergen and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. He has had solo exhibitions at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas, the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo which travelled to Reykjavik Art Museum, Friedricianum Kassel and Bonniers Konstall, Stockholm.
The auction’s painting "The First Decadent: JK Huysmans" is a homage to the French writer and art critic, J-K Huysmans. His most famous novel À rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way; 1884) is seen as an often stated example of decadent literature as well as an important step for the gay literature.
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