Space Of Passions
A striking work in tempera on paper, Vladimir Yankilevsky's *Space of Passions* explores the tension between inner emotional states and the external world through bold, symbolic imagery. Yankilevsky's distinctive visual language merges figuration and abstraction, drawing the viewer into a charged psychological landscape where human desires and conflicts unfold across the picture plane. The luminous, densely layered tempera medium lends the composition an intense, almost ritualistic quality that is characteristic of the artist's deeply personal mythology.
- Medium
- tempera on paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
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🔨 Auction Lot
Escape Artists 2.0: The Non-Conformists Online
September 26, 2019
Estimate: $500 to $700
Lot 27
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Ernst Fuchs
Austrian · b. 1930
Fuchs similarly merges figuration and abstraction within a dense symbolic visual language, using richly layered paint to evoke charged psychological and spiritual landscapes filled with human desire and conflict.
Pavel Filonov
Russian · b. 1883
Filonov shares Yankilevsky's intense, almost ritualistic approach to layering figuration and abstraction on paper, building densely packed compositions that translate inner emotional states into vibrant expressive imagery.
Roberto Matta
Chilean · b. 1911
Matta's surrealist works similarly explore psychological tension and human passion through bold colorful abstraction merged with figurative elements, creating luminous picture planes that feel like charged inner emotional universes.
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