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Navot Miller — Schalfstunde (Mauricio & Navot in CDMX)
Navot Miller — Schalfstunde (Mauricio & Navot in CDMX)
Navot Miller

Schalfstunde (Mauricio & Navot in CDMX)

2025

Rendered in oil on linen at an imposing 200 by 160 centimeters, Schalfstunde (Mauricio & Navot in CDMX) positions two figures in a moment of suspended afternoon rest, the kind of intimate, unhurried stillness that resists the pace of contemporary life. Navot Miller works from his own photographs and lived experience, and this painting carries that autobiographical weight openly, naming both subject and artist in its title and grounding the image in a specific city and a specific friendship. The scale is deliberate, pulling the viewer into a scene that might otherwise read as quietly private, transforming personal memory into something monumental and shared. Miller's handling of the linen surface rewards close attention. His paint application moves between passages of soft, almost atmospheric warmth and moments of crisp, descriptive precision, a technique that captures the particular quality of midday light in Mexico City, filtered and heavy, pressing figures into repose. The work belongs to a sustained body of figurative painting in which Miller examines tenderness between men with neither sentimentality nor distance, offering instead a frank and generous gaze. For collectors engaged with contemporary figuration, Schalfstunde represents one of Miller's most personally candid and formally confident works to date, presented through DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM and available unframed, inviting the collector to determine how this quietly powerful canvas will ultimately meet the wall.

Medium
Oil on linen
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin

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Navot Miller, Schalfstunde (Mauricio & Navot in CDMX), 2025

Rendered in oil on linen at an imposing 200 by 160 centimeters, Schalfstunde (Mauricio & Navot in CDMX) positions two figures in a moment of suspended afternoon rest, the kind of intimate, unhurried stillness that resists the pace of contemporary life. Navot Miller works from his own photographs and lived experience, and this painting carries that autobiographical weight openly, naming both subject and artist in its title and grounding the image in a specific city and a specific friendship. The scale is deliberate, pulling the viewer into a scene that might otherwise read as quietly private, transforming personal memory into something monumental and shared. Miller's handling of the linen surface rewards close attention. His paint application moves between passages of soft, almost atmospheric warmth and moments of crisp, descriptive precision, a technique that captures the particular quality of midday light in Mexico City, filtered and heavy, pressing figures into repose. The work belongs to a sustained body of figurative painting in which Miller examines tenderness between men with neither sentimentality nor distance, offering instead a frank and generous gaze. For collectors engaged with contemporary figuration, Schalfstunde represents one of Miller's most personally candid and formally confident works to date, presented through DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM and available unframed, inviting the collector to determine how this quietly powerful canvas will ultimately meet the wall.

Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
overall: 200.66 x 160.02 cm
Year
2025
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin

Related themes

Mexico City, Figurative Painting, LGBTQ+ Artist, Israeli Artist, Two Figures, Oil on Linen, Resting Figures, Intimate Scene, Contemporary Realism

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