Kevin Sonmor painting

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Probably not the best place to sell a painting but if you know the artist and might be looking for something like this, you've hit the jackpot.

Kevin Sonmor is this guy...

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Kevin Sonmor’s heroic, post-apocalyptic paintings […] reference dark brooding abstract landscapes animated with tight, intensely coloured, realistically ordered still-lifes. Hints of survival and the hope of the unseen people are encoded in these enigmatic altar-like settings, covered with rich royal red tapestries and sumptuous blue velvets offering sanctuary for chalices and bright sacrificial flowers. Could this bounty of picked blossoms indicate man’s expectancy to still harvest nature for his own use? Sonmor’s apparent contradictions suggest a mysterious, otherworldly character of spirituality. “This is my view of reality. The tragedy of Western culture is hard to avoid.” Sonmor has abstracted the atmosphere of rugged Romanticism recalled in Nineteenth-century works such as Turner’s turbulent stormy seas and thunderous skies. This artist has tormented Friedrich’s hanging cliffs and dreary stillness of endless ocean implying the powerlessness of man in the face of mighty nature. His tragic backgrounds suggest the force of human self-destructiveness, but his vibrant altars imply man’s ability to survive his own malignant tendencies

Bio here...

http://debellefeuille.com/wp-content...Bio%202015.pdf

And pics of the painting here...

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He's also in several museums...this one at the Glenbow is in the permanent collection and is the same size as the one for sale....

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He's represented by several galleries including Newzones in Calgary. The retail price was 22k here a few years ago, 28k at Galerie du Bellefeuille.

It's 72 x 64, not framed, stretched canvas. It's in perfect condition and has been stored for the last five years.

$7500 is a really good price. It's beautiful and quite valuable.

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