Bahram Hajou
Biography
Bahram Hajou is an internationally recognized German- Syrian Kurdish artist living and working in Germany and has a studio in New York- USA.
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Hajou is regarded as one of the great figurative painters of our time. His art examines and depicts relationships, those of his own and of others. The psychological dimension of his paintings is the result of relentless self-analysis. Body postures and positions bear witness to the inability to talk to and love one another. You can feel how arduous it is for those depicted to communicate with and understand each other. The truth expressed in his works of art is unadorned and unvarnished. The expression immediately triggers a feeling.
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His work is found in several private and public collections internationally including Mathaf of Modern Art Museum in Ar-Rayyan- Qatar, ArtHall Oldenburg in Germany, Deutsche Bank in Germany, Sheikh Rashed Al Khalifa in al-Bahrain, Binoche Fine Art Gallery, New York, Manfred Goubitz in Germany. In 2014 he was awarded the Henry Matisse Prize by the Château Musée Grimaldi in France. He became a star in the French media virtually overnight and even the large daily newspaper Le Monde dedicated a full-page report to him.
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Born in Deruna, northern Syria, in 1952. Bahram Hajou studied at the Münster department of the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and after graduating became a master student of Professor Norbert Tadeusz.
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Following a brief period of teaching at the Gesamtschule Ückendorf, a comprehensive school in Gelsenkirchen, he has devoted himself to fine arts since the early 1990s.
Auction
History
BAHRAM HAJOU
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"THE SCREAM"
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Found at Christies, New York (Online Auction)
First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art, Lot 18.
9.Jul-21.Jul 2021
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Estimate: 50.000-70.000 USD
Price Realised: 137.500 USD
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Description
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Bahram Hajou (b.1952)
The Scream
signed and dated 'b.Haj, 1989' (lower right), titled and dated 'Der Schrei; 89' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
59 x 51 in. (150 x 130 cm.)
Executed in 1989.
-Naima Njid Collection, Dubai | Acquired from the above by the present owner
Upper estimate price exceeded by 96 %.
The artwork titled "The Scream" by Bahram Hajou achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in July 2021.
In the First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art auction, the work 'The Scream' sold for USD 137,500.00 (€ 115,896.83) - well above the upper estimate of USD 70,000.00.
Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Bahram Hajou; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Selbstbildnis [Self-Portrait|AID835192] sold at auction in July last year with the realized price of USD 151,200.00 (€ 148,206.23).
'THE SCREAM' by artist Bahram Hajou
