Peter Chevalier (1953) — Auction price
Peter Chevalier is a German painter whose paintings and drawings are close to surrealism. In the 1980s, Chevalier juxtaposed the realistic with the abstract in his paintings. Clearly configured individual but combined things (houses, airplanes, stumps of columns, light bulbs, bones, etc.) dominated, which – as if one were cutting out illustrations from magazines and reassembling them as a collage – are inconsistent in their proportions in the pictorial context.
Peter Chevalier is a German painter whose paintings and drawings are close to surrealism. In the 1980s, Chevalier juxtaposed the realistic with the abstract in his paintings. Clearly configured individual but combined things (houses, airplanes, stumps of columns, light bulbs, bones, etc.) dominated, which – as if one were cutting out illustrations from magazines and reassembling them as a collage – are inconsistent in their proportions in the pictorial context.
