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Edgar Fernhout
Still Life with Painting Rag, 1946
Less than a decade after painting this sober still life, Edgar Fernhout turned to abstraction. Two square medicine bottles (filled with turpentine?) and two large bottles. At the top of the left-hand bottle, a flicker of leftover cadmium red paint serves as a colour highlight. The more coarsely pain
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ted rags resemble miniature mountains, which Fernhout has reduced to shards and squares of colour. Does the ‘enclosed’ cork at the bottom of the bottle symbolise that in this still life, Fernhout still feels trapped in a style not his own, namely that of his mother Charley Toorop?
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Edgar Fernhout
Title
Still Life with Painting Rag
Year
1946
Technique
Oil on canvas
Size
54 x 38 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Painting
Copyright
© Pictoright
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