Jan Groth

Norwegian | 1938

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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Past Exhibitions

Drawing Out

Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum

Tromsø | Norway

Jun 08,2023 - Aug 05,2023

Jan Groth: In Memoriam: Drawings, Sculptures, Tapestry And Wall Drawing

Galleri Riis, Oslo

Oslo | Norway

May 12,2022 - Jun 18,2022

Paper Planes

Standard (Oslo)

Oslo | Norway

Jun 18,2021 - Jul 10,2021

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Articles

Exhibition at Scandinavia House Presents the Work of Three Norwegian Artists

ArtDaily 18/10/2018

Light Lines: The Art of Jan Groth, Inger Johanne Grytting, and Thomas Pihl opened at Scandinavia House on Saturday, October 13.

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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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Galleri Riis, Oslo

“ ..Groth´s new wall-leaning bronze sculptures feature shapes suggesting bodies or figures... ”
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Galleri Riis, Oslo

“ ..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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Henie Onstad Art Center

“ ..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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Henie Onstad Art Center

“ ..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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Henie Onstad Art Center