2021 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 292
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Bob Kuhn (1920 – 2007)
North Country (1991)
acrylic on board
21.5 × 24 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Signed, titled, and dated
The artist wrote, “To be an artist requires that the truth as one knows it should be stretched and bent to the aesthetic demands of the work, for facts alone do not produce art. Rather, they are the raw stuff from which a piece of art might emerge.
“I now think, albeit pretty late in the game, that the realism of a painting is honored in the breach. It’s the little glitch that often gives life to a piece of work. A quirk, a twist – something that surprises.”