07-23-2006, 02:18 PM
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Drives: 2016 228i M-Sport
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: KCMO
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54 year-old Albert Oehlen out of Hamburg Germany. "Sketched Hound", 2005. apprx. 81x102"
The king of grey. & a real heavyweight painter- real in the sense that Oehlen is hip to painting's history
and can do just about whatever he wants with a brush and paint...realistic, abstract- you name it, it's all grist for the mill with this guy.
Uneven (sometimes his stuff is a bit too glib- & glib is part of his repetoire)) but breathtaking when he hits it...as he does here.
Saatchi had 6-7 Oehlen's on view in Part 2 of "Triumph of Painting" that ran from July to October of 2005.
A painter's painter.
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