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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 285

Peter Foldes "The Net Is Closing" Oil on Canvas

Estimate: $400 - $800
Starting Bid
$200

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Signed on verso. 

Date: 1960

Provenance: Dayton's Gallery 12 label on verso. 

 

Image: 28" Tall x 45" Wide 

Frame: 28 3/4" Tall x 46" Wide 

 

Condition: Craquelure throughout the painting, consistent with aging of oil paints. Chips to the paint, primarily to the upper right corner. UV light reveals no overpainting. Frame is detaching from the canvas. 

 

Artist Bio: Peter Foldes (1924-1977) was born in Hungary and came to London after the Second World War, studying at the Courtauld Institute and the Slade School of Fine Art. He made his name first as a painter, in a figurative manner touched by Surrealism, and he later moved to Paris, where painting and filmmaking ran side by side for the rest of his career. His early hand drawn animated films, including "Animated Genesis" of 1952, eventually brought him to the National Film Board of Canada.

There Foldes became one of the pioneers of computer animation. Working with Canadian researchers on early key frame software, he made "Metadata" in 1971 and "Hunger" in 1974, a fluid, unsettling satire of appetite and consumption in which drawn figures continuously transform into one another. "Hunger" won the Jury Prize at Cannes and an Academy Award nomination, and it remains a landmark of the medium. The same restless metamorphosis drives his paintings. "The Net Is Closing" is an oil of 1960, from the years when painting was still the center of his work.

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