Jan Groth is a Norwegian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1938. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum have featured Jan Groth's work in the past.Jan Groth's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 612 USD to 40,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 40,000 USD for Sign, sold at Rago Arts and Auction Center in 2022. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Jan Groth is featured in Exhibition at Scandinavia House Presents the Work of Three Norwegian Artists, a piece from ArtDaily in October 2018.
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..Likewise, the spacial drawing of the recent sculptures adhere to the figures and signs of the new small drawings, evocative of ancient writings, referring back to Groth's early works in this format more...
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..If Michaux's drawings are compared with Groth's, there are striking resemblances, but the two artists had different aims: whereas Michaux chose words as the point of departure for his rapid, impulsive...
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..Groth's earliest, most "figure-like" sculptures in particular, bear a striking resemblance to Giacometti's works, both as regards the treatment of the material and the figures' relationship to their surroundings...
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..Giacometti's impact on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations cannot be overestimated and it is impossible to exclude Giacometti's oeuvre when appraising Groth's sculptures...
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