Lot 282: Armen Eloyan (b. 1966)

Armen Eloyan (b. 1966)
17th to 21st Century Informal Exotic (#106)
signed and dated 'Armen Eloyan 07' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
70 7/8 x 94½in. (180 x 240cm.)
Painted in 2007

Bob van Orsouw, Zurich.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
"Cartoons have a venerable history in contemporary art think Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons but Armen's cast of characters feels different from these. Lichtenstein and the rest were playing high-art-low-art games with their "whams!" and their Mickey Mice. Armen, by contrast, is inventing rather than appropriating, and although his biggest influence is clearly Philip Guston, his logs and potatoes and tomatoes and books smack oddly of Chagall: bit-players from a Mitteleuropa folklore, down-market versions of wolves and pigs and little girls in red capes"
(C. Darwent, "Armen Eloyan", The Independent, 6 September 2009).