Lot #98 - Jerry Ott, born 1947 (USA)

Jerry Ott, born 1947 (USA)

Estimate: 1 500 - 3 000 £

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Lot Description

Jerry Duane Ott (born 1947), is active/lives in Minnesota, USA. Girl with red chair (brick wall), early 1970s. Acrylic, airbrush on canvas, size 176 x 229 cm (69 1/3 x 90 1/4 inches). Signed lower right. (Jerry Ott is known for Photoreal figure-nude and genre painting, airbrush. Jerry Ott is an American artist born in 1947 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He is an acclaimed airbrush artist and painter of the Photorealist School of painting that emerged in the 1960s. He attended Mankato State College until 1971 and shortly after he received his master's degree from University of Minnesota. Throughout the 70s and 80s his work was shown in major exhibitions with a group of artists that were to become known as Photorealists, while also being exhibited as a major figurative painter. Jerry Ott uses an airbrush to apply paint to his canvases. The spraygun applies the paint in thin, delicate layers, giving the surface an evenness similar to that of mechanically produced photographs and eliminates the texture and stroke of the brush. This fine spray helps subtle blending of pigment and forces the artist close to the canvas so that he has to concentrate on one small area at a time.)