Join The Collection to save, track, and explore works like this.

Heidi Hahn — End. Resumed #9
Heidi Hahn — End. Resumed #9
Heidi Hahn — End. Resumed #9
Heidi Hahn — End. Resumed #9
Heidi Hahn

End. Resumed #9

2025

End. Resumed #9 presents a characteristically intimate encounter with the human figure, rendered in Heidi Hahn's distinctively layered oil on linen. Working at a compact 35 × 28 cm, Hahn draws the viewer into close psychological proximity, a scale that suits her preoccupation with interiority and emotional ambiguity. The painting belongs to a serial body of work in which resumption itself becomes the subject, each canvas treating continuation as a charged, unresolved act rather than a simple return. Hahn builds her surfaces through accumulation and selective erasure, allowing earlier marks and tonal shifts to remain visible beneath subsequent passages of paint. This structural transparency gives End. Resumed #9 a quality of layered time, as though the figure exists simultaneously across multiple states of being. Her palette tends toward muted warmth punctuated by cooler, more unsettled passages, and the composition resists the kind of narrative closure that might diminish its contemplative power. Completed in 2025 and offered through Kadel Willborn, this signed work represents Hahn at a particularly focused and assured moment in her practice. For collectors drawn to figuration that operates at the intersection of psychological depth and formal restraint, the piece offers genuine staying power. Linen as a support lends the surface a subtle texture that rewards close looking, reinforcing the sense that this is a painting built for sustained, private attention.

Medium
Oil on linen
Overall
Signed
Yes

For Sale — $7500

Start the Discussion

Request access to join the discussion

Collectors with works by Heidi Hahn

About this work

Heidi Hahn, End. Resumed #9, 2025

End. Resumed #9 presents a characteristically intimate encounter with the human figure, rendered in Heidi Hahn's distinctively layered oil on linen. Working at a compact 35 × 28 cm, Hahn draws the viewer into close psychological proximity, a scale that suits her preoccupation with interiority and emotional ambiguity. The painting belongs to a serial body of work in which resumption itself becomes the subject, each canvas treating continuation as a charged, unresolved act rather than a simple return. Hahn builds her surfaces through accumulation and selective erasure, allowing earlier marks and tonal shifts to remain visible beneath subsequent passages of paint. This structural transparency gives End. Resumed #9 a quality of layered time, as though the figure exists simultaneously across multiple states of being. Her palette tends toward muted warmth punctuated by cooler, more unsettled passages, and the composition resists the kind of narrative closure that might diminish its contemplative power. Completed in 2025 and offered through Kadel Willborn, this signed work represents Hahn at a particularly focused and assured moment in her practice. For collectors drawn to figuration that operates at the intersection of psychological depth and formal restraint, the piece offers genuine staying power. Linen as a support lends the surface a subtle texture that rewards close looking, reinforcing the sense that this is a painting built for sustained, private attention.

Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
overall: 35 x 28 cm
Year
2025
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Kadel Willborn

More works by Heidi Hahn

Collected by

Gavin Kennedy