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Nerd Fact no1: The four feathers in P. G. Thelander’s etching “FALLER EN FALLER ALLA” from 1973 are hand-colored using actual bird feathers.
Nerd Fact no.2: The same technique is used in the print “FLYGANDE GET” from 1993.
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On Wikipedia, I read that his works “with their delicate lines are associated with the Florentine early Renaissance” and that “He playfully distributes irrelevant objects within an apparently ordinary motif.” That kind of thing goes right over my head and turns into word salad I soon forget. But in one of Karl Haskel’s books, it’s explained to me more clearly. It’s the 1960s and P. G. Thelander is inspired by art-historical predecessors, such as Sandro Botticelli, “born as early as 1444, but hardly dead in PG’s eyes.” Haskel then drops one artist name after another (one of which appears in reverse form in “FALLER EN FALLER ALLA”) without losing me. With him as a guide, I follow Thelander from a distance among mushrooms, pork sausages, carrots, ostriches, and penguins. All this information adds extra value. I want to start collecting, but quickly give up when I read that Haskel lists 381 graphic works in his books – from 1958’s “KASTANJEÄTARE II" to "HUMMER MED STÅENDE ELEFANT" från 2014. No one has that many walls.
On the back of the etching now offered by Palsgaard Auctions is a newspaper clipping cut from Week-endavisen, dated May 31, 1974. A Bent Irve wrote about a P. G. Thelander exhibition at Galerie Arnesen in Copenhagen. It’s more than likely that the current print was bought there and then. Nice provenance, I think, as I delve deeper into the etched world of the image. This leads to Nerd Fact no.3: The edition number on Thelander’s prints refers to the intended edition size. In some cases, fewer prints were actually made. The prolific printmaker’s works may therefore be rarer than one might think. In other words – now’s the time to act!
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