Acrylic on fibreboard , in the artist's original frame. Monogrammed, dated and titled on the reverse. Including the artist frame: 119 x 139 cm.
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• Extraordinarily large and in her typical intense palette: Xenia Hausner stages the objects in her still lifes as if they were artificially illuminated film stills.
• Fragments of a narrative: the title seems to refer to the dance hall “Clärchens Ballhaus” in Berlin, or is it the room of a girl named Klärchen?
• The Austrian artist is considered one of the most important figurative painters of our time.
• Most recently, her works were exhibited in a major solo show at the Albertina, Vienna, in 2021.