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Materials:

Oil on board

Size Notes:

Each

Description:

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Markings:

Signed NS 1970 on painting no. II

Exhibited:

Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1977, cat. no. 17. Exhibited: Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark, 1997, cat. Exhibited: Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark, 1997, cat. no. 9. Niels Strøbek's artistic starting point came from his training with the spontaneous-abstract painter Egill Jacobsen. Yet the earliest paintings show a realism that borders on the surreal. Strøbek has painted numerous portraits, which through their objects describe the portrayed person, but he catches one's interest in particular in the works, where he blows up the naturalistic reality. He has painted many still life paintings, which show his technical ability in the same way as can be seen in the 1600s Dutch paintings. Lunch reproduces a plate with open-faced sandwiches, an egg in an egg-cup with a matching spoon, knife, fork and a water glass, all placed on a table. Here Strøbek uses different perspectives, for instance the water glass and egg-cup are seen obliquely from the side, while the plate and the cutlery are shown almost vertically from above. There is a cubic influence, which has not been seen since in his work. Strøbek's later super realism is already evident in this painting, for instance in the traces of the knife on the buttered piece of bread. An example of Strøbek's early acquired technical skills includes the five part work "The Closet", where the nature of the different materials, from the texture of the dishcloths, the force of the potato sprouts, the dead hen's wax pale smoothness, the slimy surface of the fish and the background's wood marbling stand out. Strøbek is most exciting in the work where a degree of ambiguity can be perceived.