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Andres Tolts “Sinine pilt 1967”
Kevadoksjon 2025
Oil on cardboard. 1987
Signature: TOLTS 87 / ANDRES TOLTS 1949 “Sinine pilt 1967” õli. papp 1987. 69,5×90
| Measurements | 69,5 x 90 cm |
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| Starting price | 4 000 € |
| Number of bids | 7 |
| Hammer price | 5 000 € |
“What inspires you?”
“The primary source of inspiration is a blank canvas, once I have stretched it onto a stretcher and properly primed it.”
Excerpt from an interview with Jüri Hain, 1995
Andres Tolts’ (1949–2014) diverse oeuvre, especially in the 1980s, also includes a series of almost abstract paintings. Combining strict geometric shapes with free self-expression, Tolts builds his own ambiguous pictorial space, in which the illusion of depth prevails. Tolts’ painted motif could be interpreted as an abstracted view out of a closed space, from the room into nature, with the dominant black color beautifully balanced out by pure blue and red tones.
The painter Mall Nukke, who knew Tolts well, also finds “us and them” areas in this painting space full of meanings. “Over there” is color and space, flowing abstraction, a happy depiction of nothing. “Over here” are frames, large and small, that are almost impossible to break through. This is Tolts’ aesthetic and philosophical space in its most certain element… making the world more beautiful, piece by piece.
Text: Harry Liivrand, Mall Nukke