Eesti kunsti oksjonid
Edgar Valter “Maailma loomine”
Sügisoksjon 2025
Oil on cardboard. 1976.
Signature: EW 76
| Measurements | 50 x 70 cm |
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| Starting price | 2 000 € |
| Number of bids | 24 |
| Hammer price | 5 500 € |
The intertwining of surrealism and the experience of nature is one of the main themes of Edgar Valter’s (1929-2006) work. The transformation of reality into vision takes place right before the viewer’s eyes and draws the audience like a magnet deep into the interior of the picture space. Such transformation, the creation of a believable mystical world, characterized Valter’s works throughout his creative path.
In a work about the creation of the world, Valter interprets the mythological Mother Earth in a figurative sense as a woman of fertile age, from whose womb birches grow and fertile soil is born. The resulting curved natural form thus has the effect of not a single hillside, but an arc of the soon-to-be-born globe itself. And he also brings the rest of the pictorial space to life – in the sunset sky, new paths, new worlds and new stories are born… Valter at his very best.
Text: Katre Palm, Harry Liivrand