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Peeter Mudist “Jääkuhjatised Soela rannas”
Sügisoksjon 2024
Oil on cardboard. 1989.
Signature: PM 89
| Measurements | 37 x 49 cm |
|---|---|
| Starting price | 4 000 € |
| Number of bids | 15 |
| Hammer price | 9 800 € |
“Ice melting is one of nature’s most powerful performances, even the waiting is magnificent and the image sublime and writing about it exciting,” says Peeter Mudist (1942-2013) about his 1980 oil piece “Ice on the Soela coast” (“Illustrated Mudist or Tobias”, p. 126. TKM).
Three years before that, his iconic “The Immortal Crawls from a Pile of Ice” (Estonian Art Museum) was completed. Ice and snow, as a temporary phenomenon that nature gives and takes, repeatedly fascinate the artist (also in “Home of the Arctic Fox” and “Winter Landscape of Saaremaa” both from 1983).
For Mudist, the visible motif itself is not important but what arises when depicting it. He has the ability to penetrate the essential core of the depicted object to see it from the inside, to turn its interior towards the viewer. Here, Mudist depicts the coast between Hiiumaa and Saaremaa in a delicately conveyed reality in which ice floes, the icy sea and the sky merge into one infinite, white-toned whole, which is nevertheless so rich in shades of color.
Text: Katre Palm, Harry Liivrand