Silvia Jõgever

1924 - 2005

Helilooja pink. 1964

Gouache, ink, collage, paper. 28 x 21 cm (not framed)
Starting price 512


Silvia Jõgever "Helilooja pink"

Silvia Jõgever was one of these last students, who could enter to the art school, which was established in the place of “Pallas”, that in spite of its name change still carried the Pallas spirit. The school was not yet mentally ruined and kept on functioning also during the war period. Elmar Kits was the teacher and Ülo Sooster, Valdur Ohakas, Henn Roode and other were the students. “Maybe they were the last carriers of the Pallas-style art mentality and spirit,” writes the Union of Artists in Jõgever’s obituary. In these two works can be seen, which kind of powerful freedom and fantasy uses Jõgever, who worked as an art teacher in the 1960ies, in his creation. He painted, but his style was not dry depiction of the reality, instead he painted absurd situations, artistic images, offering creative solutions. Jõgever introduced on the so-called holy painting surface clippings from newspapers, showing in this manner the absurdity of the period. Directly visual issues, testing with most different forms and patterns that would not be tied to the suppressing reality, but which would fight their own battles, the battles of independent art, became of interest. And still these are not school teacher’s pranks in the afternoon, but they are the convinced works of an artist who has received classical education regarding colours and forms. Colours are never random on his works, he knows, when to add pale blue, when reddish hues. He does not scribble with a pen on the paper, but sets forms and adjusts contours exactly so that the work would become an integer. This is pure aesthetic enjoyment, in the name of which Jõgever works in the 1960ies and which he fights for. And exactly this is the art, which allows decades later the local art scientists to say: yes, we lived in a closed zone, but our artists’ thoughts were free to travel everywhere. When abstractionism existed in the West, also we had it.

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Appearance in auctions

Garden View
Silvia Jõgever
Garden View
1950s. Oil, cardboard 49.5 x 31.7 cm (framed)
EARLIER ART CLASSICS - Saturday, May 14th 15:00 Haus Gallery 14.05.2022
1 400
Final price: 1 600
Tartu, Karlova
Silvia Jõgever
Tartu, Karlova
1980. Oil, cardboard 42.5 x 58.5 cm (framed)
SPRING 2020 Haus Gallery 15.05.2020
1 200
Final price: 1 300
Klounid
Silvia Jõgever
Klounid
1991-1993. oil, canvas en cardbord 70 x 92 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's spring auction Haus Gallery 27.04.2018
2 900
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Karlova
Silvia Jõgever
Karlova
1980. oil on paper 43 x 59 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXVI ART AUCTION. 2014 autumn Haus Gallery 06.10.2014
1 100
Final price:
Baleriinid
Silvia Jõgever
Baleriinid
1963. Oil, paper 60.5 x 42 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XX ART AUCTION, 2007 spring Old Masters Paintings Haus Gallery 15.04.2007-24.04.2007
1 342
Final price:
Abstraktne kompositisioon
Silvia Jõgever
Abstraktne kompositisioon
1964. Water-colours, ink, collage, paper 41.5 x 30 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XX ART AUCTION, 2007 spring. Contemporary Art ArtDepoo 05.04.2007-17.04.2007
1 023
Final price:
Helilooja pink
Silvia Jõgever
Helilooja pink
1964. Gouache, ink, collage, paper 28 x 21 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XX ART AUCTION, 2007 spring. Contemporary Art ArtDepoo 05.04.2007-17.04.2007
511
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Keset ruudulist.
Silvia Jõgever
Keset ruudulist.
1967. 43 x 51 cm
HAUS / X AUCTION, 2002 spring Haus Gallery 09.05.2002
575
Final price: 575

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