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Wilhelm Freddie

Nonnens bøn (La prière de la religieuse)

1937

Wilhelm Freddie
(1909, Danemark - 1995, Danemark)

Nonnens bøn
(La prière de la religieuse)

1937

For Freddie, a painter "is like a medium, an instrument that captures hallucinations on canvas".

After an abstract period, Danish painter Wilhelm Freddie adopted a pictorial technique in the 1930s that features the meticulous expression of the unconscious in a hallucinatory image. ln this canvas, presented at the 1938 International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris, a deformed female body, reminiscent of Dali's "spectrals", is isolated in an indeterminate and harrowing space with a distinctly blasphemous character.

Domain Peinture
Techniques

Huile sur toile

Dimensions

125 x 101 cm

Acquisition

Achat, 2016

Inventory no. AM 2016-52

Artist Wilhelm Freddie
(1909, Danemark - 1995, Danemark)
Main title

Nonnens bøn

(La prière de la religieuse)

Creation date

1937

Domain Peinture
Techniques

Huile sur toile

Dimensions

125 x 101 cm

Inscriptions

S.D.B.DR. : freddie- / 1937 -

Acquisition

Achat, 2016

Collection area

Arts Plastiques - Moderne

Inventory no. AM 2016-52

By the same artist

Wilhelm Freddie

Les tentations de Saint Antoine

1939

Wilhelm Freddie

(Sans titre)

1940

External links

La collection du Musée national d’art moderne