Christian Hook
Grey Green
Spanning 4 centuries of global art history, The International Sale, presents 127 exceptional lots by artists from 27 countries across five continents. The auction highlights masterworks ranging from 17th century European paintings to post-2000 editions by contemporary artist's such as Mr Brainwash (lot 51), Jim Dine (lots 83-86), Isaac Julien (lot 108), Jeff Koons (45), and Lucas Samaras (lot 107 and 110). The sale is anchored by important pieces from Georg Baselitz, Erik Laubscher, Shirin Neshat, and a newly repatriated 1935 portrait by Irma Stern.
The auction's diversity is driven by rare museum-quality highlights, led by Irma Stern's Two Women (lot 31), which returns to South Africa after decades in a Berlin private collection. It is joined by Erik Laubscher's rare recto-verso painting Young Family / Construction (lot 48), an Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat photographic portrait linked to her award-winning Turbulent installation (lot 66), and a uniquely hand-coloured linocut by German master Georg Baselitz titled Das Pferd, Im Wald und auf der Heide Series (The Horse, in the Forest and on the Heath Series) (lot 72).
LOT 37
Christian Hook
Grey Green
About this Item
signed and numbered 18/95; accompanied by a DeMontfort Fine Art certificate of authenticity signed, numbered and inscribed with the artist's name, the title and medium
Notes
Christian Hook is a contemporary figurative and equine painter. His artistic practice bridges historical portraiture traditions with a vibrant, contemporary perspective, through a sophisticated interplay of colour and light and employing fractured imagery to create nuanced studies in time and motion.
After studying illustration at Middlesex University in London, Hook pursued a successful career as an illustrator while lecturing at prominent institutions, including the Royal College of Art. His career reached a major milestone in 2014 when he won the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year award that won him a portrait commission of actor Alan Cumming held in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. His portraits include sitters Dame Kristen Scott Thomas, Sir Richard Branson and Sir Ian McKellen.
Provenance
DeMontfort Fine Art, Lichfield.
Private Collection.
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