573 - DOĞANÇAY, BURHAN

DOĞANÇAY, BURHAN 1929 Istanbul–2013 Title: Moment. Date: 1989. Technique: Oil and collage on canvas. Dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm. Inscription: Signed and dated lower right: BDogancay 1989. Signed, dated, and inscribed several times on the reverse, lower left and upper right. Frame: Framed. Provenance: - Christie’s, London, auction September 14, 2011, lot 174 - Corporate collection, Southern Germany - Turkish-American artist in high demand on the international auction market - Distinctive work that presents the urban wall as a repository of collective memories - Multi-layered composition in the artist’s characteristic illusionistic, collage-like style Burhan Doğançay is one of the most significant Turkish-American painters and photographers of the international postwar modernist movement. Born in Istanbul in 1929, he drew his first artistic inspiration from his father, the painter Adil Doğançay. Alongside his artistic training, he studied law in Ankara and economics in Paris. In 1964, he settled in New York. There, he discovered the urban building facade as the central theme of his work. He interpreted remnants of posters, graffiti, lettering, and weathered surfaces as traces of human presence and social change. Over the decades, he developed his “Walls” series from this concept, in which painting, photography, and collage intertwine. His affinity for Pop Art and Nouveau Réalisme is combined with an independent exploration of the city as visual memory. The 1989 work “Augenblick” condenses this visual language into a multi-layered collage. Fragments of different faces—and above all, their intensely gazing eyes—emerge from a seemingly weathered wall covered with multiple layers of tape. Interspersed among them are torn pieces of paper and illusionistically painted rolls of paper that stand out against the background. Shades of black, gray, and beige dominate the composition; the luminous blue of the eyes provides deliberate accents of color. Tearing, layering, and revealing become a pictorial principle: what is visible is concealed, while underlying layers reemerge. The work was created shortly after Doğançay’s “Cones” series of the late 1980s, in which rolled-up paper forms, light, and shadow transform the wall into a three-dimensional pictorial space. In “Augenblick,” this interplay with the surface is combined with the haunting motif of the gaze. Thus, the urban wall becomes a repository of fleeting images and collective memory. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: This lot is not suitable for parcel shipping. Transport must be arranged through a shipping company following consultation after the auction. Additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to a total invoice amount of 25,000 euros: max. 41.65 euros over a total invoice amount of 25,000 euros: 1.8 per thousand Shipping to the U.S. by individual arrangement after the auction. #Burhan Doğançay #Painting #Head #1980s #Post-War. This lot will be sold subject to standard taxation (Conditions of Sale §V6.1) In accordance with §26 UrhG (German Copyright Act), VAN HAM is obligated to pay a statutory resale royalty on the sale proceeds of all original works of fine art and photography whose authors have not been deceased for 70 years prior to the end of the calendar year of the sale. The buyer shall contribute 1.5% of the hammer price toward this fee.