Lot 2202
Peter Robert Keil (German, b. 1942), Dreaming Picasso II
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Sight size 29 1/2 x 22 in.; Frame dimensions 37 3/4 x 30 1/4 in.
Peter Robert Keil is a German painter and sculptor whose life and work were profoundly shaped by the upheavals of World War II. Following the death of his father on the Eastern Front, Keil and his mother fled to West Berlin, where he grew up amid the stark urban landscape that would later inform his imagery. Immersed early in art through both family influence and exposure to Expressionism and Picasso, he studied under the painter Otto Nagel and later attended the Berlin University of the Arts. By the early 1960s, Keil had begun an international career, establishing studios across Europe and the United States and engaging with leading figures of the postwar avant-garde.
Associated with the “Neue Wilden” (New Fauves) generation, Keil developed a highly expressive, spontaneous style characterized by bold color, vigorous brushwork, and a deliberate rejection of academic convention. His paintings are driven by an emphasis on emotional immediacy and artistic freedom. Over decades of prolific production, Keil has exhibited internationally and created a substantial body of work spanning painting, sculpture, and ceramics, earning recognition for his raw, energetic visual language and enduring contribution to contemporary Expressionism.
Minor rubbing to frame; not examined out of the frame.
