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The Ib Jorgensen Collection 11
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November 2014
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Allan Madsen (b.1952)
Nude
Watercolour, 102 x 66.5cm (40.1 x 26.1”)
Signed
Danish by birth, the well-travelled Allan Madsen now lives and works in
the Spanish province of Murcia.His first artistic incarnation was as a mu-
sician specialising in lute music of the Renaissance. These two interests,
music and the Renaissance, have certainly crossed over into his paintings.
The patterning in the backgrounds of his still lifes betrays a decided mu-
sicality whilst the texture he achieves is redolent of Italian murals. Giotto
comes to mind when one studies the rich texture which is built up by the
use of colour. It is as though one is in the Arena Chapel in Padua looking
at the underpainting coming through due to the natural patination of age.
It is this, the sense of age, which renders the works so tranquil. There is
no need to explain or to vocalise them; one wishes merely to absorb them.
€800 - 1,200