Valdur Ohakas
(1925 - 1998)
Portreed (teine portree pöördel). 1963
Oil on plywood. 49 x 37 cm
price 767 (sold)
The creation of Valdur Ohakas of the 1960ies has been considered in the Estonian modern art to be an inevitable landmark already for a long time. It is amazing, how the artist was able after his 7-year imprisonment in the Soviet prison camp at the end of the 1950ies to take again up painting in a new, powerful manner. Similarily to the members of the “Tartu Friendly Circle” (incl. his best friend Ülo Sooster) he gathered into his mixed creation influences from impressionism to surrealism and cubism to abstractionism. Appalling hunger for art joined here the freedom of improvising, which Ohakas experienced while studying in the 1940ies in the former “Pallas” under the supervision of Elmar Kits.
The author, possessing an extremely sensitive artistic nerve, has used in his “Portreed” that was made during his artistic peak both modelling with colours and tuning of surface rhythms. We can most probably agree with one of the students of Ohakas, according to whose works “his relations with the subject were extremely emotional, direct and warm.” Furthermore – Ohakas painted things that” he lived through himself”.
Appearance in auctions
KÜTIORU VAADE
1996. 50 x 70 cm (not framed)
HAUS / II AUCTION, 1998 spring Haus Gallery 25.05.1998
614
Final price: 690
TOOMPEA VAADE
1958. 42 x 62 cm (not framed)
HAUS / III AUCTION, 1998 autumn Haus Gallery 26.10.1998
614
Final price: 767
Vestlus.
undated. 25 x 36 cm
HAUS / IX AUCTION, 2001 autumn Haus Gallery 20.10.2001
575
Final price:
Karjala maastik.
1965. 60 x 79 cm
HAUS / X AUCTION, 2002 spring Haus Gallery 09.05.2002
1 534
Final price:
Laua ümber
1970. Oil on cardboard 35 x 48 cm
HAUS / XIIth AUCTION, 2003 spring Haus Gallery 24.04.2003
575
Final price: 575
Suudlus
undated. Oil on cardboard 35 x 30 cm
HAUS / XIIth AUCTION, 2003 spring Haus Gallery 24.04.2003
767
Final price: 1 150
Portreed (teine portree pöördel)
1963. Oil on plywood 49 x 37 cm
HAUS GALLERY XIIIth ART AUCTION 2003 autumn Haus Gallery 23.10.2003
767
Final price: 767
Portreed (teine portree pöördel)
1963. Oil on plywood 49 x 37 cm
HAUS GALLERY XIIIth ART AUCTION 2003 autumn Haus Gallery 23.10.2003
767
Final price: 767
Autoportree
1955. Oil, paper 9 x 10 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVIII ART AUCTION, 2006 spring. Old Masters Painting Haus Gallery 20.04.2006
831
Final price: 831
Abstraktne kompositisoon
1970-1975. oil, masonite 28 x 43.4 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXI ART AUCTION 2007 autumn Old Masters Paintings Haus Gallery 23.10.2007
959
Final price: 959
Punased tulbid
1973. oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXII ART AUCTION 2008 spring. Contemporary Art Haus Gallery 21.04.2008
1 662
Final price: 1 662
Antiik
1972. oil on cardboard 33 x 47.3 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXIV ART AUCTION 2009 spring Haus Gallery 28.04.2009
767
Final price:
Karjala maastik
1960-1965. oil on paper 60 x 80 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXV ART AUCTION 2009 autumn Haus Gallery 27.10.2009
895
Final price:
Talvine Tallinn
1970-1980. oil on canvas 75 x 59.5 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXVI ART AUCTION 2010 spring Haus Gallery 15.04.2010
1 406
Final price: 1 406
Puhkaja
1970-1980. oil, acrylic on cardboard 35.2 x 49.8 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 08.11.2010-10.11.2010
703
Final price:
Seisev akt punasel taustal
1980-1998. ink on paper vm 43 x 33 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXX ART AUCTION 2011 autumn Haus Gallery 14.10.2011
680
Final price:
Estraad
1966. oil on canvas 133 x 98.5 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXX ART AUCTION 2011 autumn Haus Gallery 14.10.2011
1 300
Final price: 2 625
Oja
1975. oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXX ART AUCTION 2011 autumn Haus Gallery 14.10.2011
1 260
Final price: 1 260
Naine roosas kleidis
1969. oil on cardboard 48 x 32.5 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 26.10.2012
600
Final price:
Arlekiin
1967. oil on cardboard 34 x 48.5 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXV ART AUCTION Haus Gallery 25.04.2014
675
Final price: 775
Mehed ja hobused
1942. watercolor lm 24.5 x 39.2 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXV ART AUCTION Haus Gallery 25.04.2014
400
Final price:
Kompositsioon koonusega
1973. oil on canvas 100 x 123.5 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXVI ART AUCTION. 2014 autumn Haus Gallery 06.10.2014
1 800
Final price:
Kaks akti
1994. oil on cardboard 32.5 x 26 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXVII AUCTION 2015 SPRING Haus Gallery 06.04.2015
550
Final price:
Linnavaade
1960-1980. monotype, mixed media on paper km 29.5 x 24 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XL AUCTION, AUTUMN 2016. Haus Gallery 28.10.2016
700
Final price: 700
Seltskond
1968. oil, cardboard 36.5 x 30 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's anniversary auction Haus Gallery 03.11.2017
1 200
Final price:
Baar
1963. Oil, canvas 102 x 141.5 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's Autumn Auction Haus Gallery 01.11.2018
15 500
Final price: 22 500
Lamav akt peegliga
1960. oil, cardboard 51 x 73 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's spring auction Haus Gallery 25.04.2019
1 700
Final price: 2 550
Cafe
1970-1980s. Oil, cardboard 33 x 22 cm (framed)
AUTUMN 2020 Haus Gallery 30.10.2020
1 600
Final price: 2 500
Shapes and Spaces
1970. Oil, canvas 28 x 37.5 cm (framed)
AUTUMN 2020 Haus Gallery 30.10.2020
1 600
Final price: 2 100
Walls
1979. Oil, canvas 80 x 100 cm (framed)
EESTI MOODSA KUNSTI KLASSIKA OKSJON Haus Gallery 08.05.2021
7 600
Final price:
In a Cafe
1966. Oil, cardboard km 30 x 32.3 cm (framed)
EESTI MOODSA KUNSTI KLASSIKA OKSJON Haus Gallery 08.05.2021
1 800
Final price: