Adrian Ghenie - The Bridge 2015
The Bridge 2015
239x199cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 3.94 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 15 November 2016
Seller: Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Adrian Ghenie (born 13 August 1977, Baia Mare) is a contemporary Romanian painter. Ghenie does not use traditional tools of the painter or brushes, but a palette knife and stencils. He paints portraits of 20th century figures, particularly those associated with genocide and mass suffering, that appear in his work gnawed and slashed, blurred and speckled. His painterly style has been compared to that of Francis Bacon.