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David SternThe Split (paradise lost)2024
2024
$35,000
£26,561.62
€30,604.65
CA$49,449.43
A$52,984.26
CHF 28,422.34
MX$627,606
NOK 358,531.99
SEK 328,001.32
DKK 228,620.48
About the Item
“The Split (Paradise Lost)”
David Stern (Germany, b. 1956)
Acrylics and Pigments on Cotton
52 x 65 inches
Hand-Signed Certificate of Authenticity Included
Color Palette: Purple, Blue, Black, Pink, Red, Brown
Keywords: Abstract Figuration, Expressionism, Cabalistic, Mysticism, Action Painting, Pigments, Acrylics
A visceral meditation on rupture, memory, and transcendence, “The Split (Paradise Lost)” is a masterwork by internationally acclaimed painter David Stern, whose emotionally charged style fuses the philosophical with the physical. Executed in a richly layered mix of acrylics and pure pigments on cotton, the work immerses the viewer in a chromatic storm of violet, blood-red, and bruised black—each hue charged with symbolic weight. This piece pulses with both action and mysticism, a dialogue between form and fragmentation.
This is Stern at his most powerful: capturing not just the figure, but the fall.
The title Paradise Lost evokes Milton’s epic—an allegory of dislocation and the search for redemption. In Stern’s hands, that myth becomes visceral, immediate. His abstracted human forms teeter between dissolution and emergence, painted with a physicality that recalls the raw gestures of de Kooning, the spiritual darkness of Rothko, and the existential urgency of Francis Bacon—yet his vision remains entirely his own.
Trained at the prestigious Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Stern is represented in major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, and the 9/11 Memorial Museum. “The Split (Paradise Lost)” stands firmly within that canon—a collector-grade work of psychological and art historical depth.
For the discerning collector seeking a powerful, rare piece by one of the defining voices of postwar figuration, this is a gallery-level acquisition of enduring value.
- Creator:David Stern (1956, German)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 52 in (132.08 cm)Width: 65 in (165.1 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU752315483472
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