Bjarne Melgaard

Norwegian · b. 1967 · Painter, Draughtsman

Bjarne Melgaard is a Norwegian artist based in New York City. He has been described as "one of Norway's most important artists" and, following the 2014 publicity about his… (Wikipedia)

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Record prices

  1. Bjarne Melgaard, The Cockmonster, 2008, OilThe CockmonsterKetterer Kunst · €42,700≈ $58,251≈ £34,622Sign up to see
  2. Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled, 2007, oil on canvasUntitledPhillips · £27,500≈ $45,271≈ €33,102Sign up to see
  3. Bjarne Melgaard, Self Image as Alan Bates, 2006, oil on canvasSelf Image as Alan BatesLempertz · €21,960≈ $29,848≈ £18,274Sign up to see

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Bjarne Melgaard is a Norwegian artist based in New York City. He has been described as "one of Norway's most important artists" and, following the 2014 publicity about his sculpture Chair, "the most famous Norwegian artist since Edvard Munch."

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Born 1967, SydneyOccupation Painter, DraughtsmanWikidata Q879363 ↗ULAN 500120946 ↗

In the collections of

Finnish National GalleryMuseum of Modern ArtNational Museum of Art, Architecture and DesignStedelijk Museum AmsterdamStedelijk Museum voor Actuele KunstWhitney Museum of American Art

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Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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