Konrad Mägi

(1878-1925)

Capri. 1922

Oil on canvas. 56 x 68 cm (not framed)
price 64 296 (sold)


Konrad Mägi "Capri"

“Having successfully arrived at Capri, ” writes Konrad Mägi on March 2 in the year 1922 to his friends. “The island is divine.”
A grand figure in the Estonian art history, the most significant artist of the first half of the century, whose colour magic shatters everyone, had arrived at Capri, where started a new stage of his creation. Even though Mägi spent on the island only one short month and by today are known only around a dozen painting of Capri, this has been sufficient to create a legend. “After a long interval Mägi was again in the condition, when what he saw allured him to paint with an irresistible power, where his mind was alert and accepting,” writes Evi Pihlak, the best expert of the creation of Mägi. These were the Capri works, where were preserved the most important traits, which also could have been detected in the previous works by Mägi, but the additions were more than remarkable: colour handling is now “much more harmonious and happier”, the artist has given up the disruption of colour unity, preferring to that “the abundance of hues and a delicate contract”, the upbuilding of the paintings is “much more spacious, absolutely new rhythmical correlations have been found and single elements have become more plastic”. Furthermore. The new vison manner of Mägi is “more free and natural”, the chosen motif “more curvy and possessing a greater internal dismembering ability”, but the form and colour remain “extremely tightly connected” with each other. Mägi is certainly inspired with enthusiasm, the preceding trip through Germany had interested him to a certain extent, but Capri was for him “the source of new picturesque impressions”, extraordinary, grand, unprecedented. After a long time Mägi paints from his heart, his soul, the long-planned foreign trip has finally paid off, and has done it with flying colours. During his stay on the island he mainly concentrates on the nocturnal or evening motives, where colours become juicier and deeper, where the light resembles wine and the whole milieu is stunningly romantic. A bigger emphasis on architectural objects can be explained by white walls, which started to glow mysteriously in the evenings. A building, having been placed on the top of a mountain is preceded by a bumpy landscape, the vigour of the colour mosaic and freedom of the brush strike of which are unique. Through dark and light green hills, through red glowing trees and bushes, incited by yellow and purple dots, the glance captures a joint wall, strange trees growing behind that and finally the bottomless blue of the night sky.
“He also started painting in such mood. In this manner in the whole series of paintings will be heard the leitmotif of “the divine island”,” writes Pihlak. But this seems to be present there anyhow.

The work was exposed at the exhibition, which was held in 1978 in the Estonian Museum of Arts.

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Appearance in auctions

Landscape
Konrad Mägi
Landscape
1915-1916. Oil, cardboard 49.5 x 65.5 cm (framed)
ESTONIAN ART AUCTION - MID-19TH CENTURY TO 1965 Haus Gallery 06.05.2023
156 000
Final price: 401 000
Norwegian Landscape
Konrad Mägi
Norwegian Landscape
1908-1910. Oil, paper 25.4 x 33.2 cm (framed)
EARLIER ART CLASSICS Haus Gallery 29.10.2022
64 000
Final price: 103 000
(sold)"> (sold)Oberstdorfi maastik
Konrad Mägi
Oberstdorfi maastik
1922. oil, canvas 41 x 26 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's spring auction Haus Gallery 25.04.2019
23 000
Final price: 26 000
Dieppe´i motiiv
Konrad Mägi
Dieppe´i motiiv
1911. oil on cardboard 46 x 57 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXIX AUCTION 2016 spring Haus Gallery 30.03.2016
29 000
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Kuuvalgus
Konrad Mägi
Kuuvalgus
1906-1910. pencil, watercolor lm 25 x 33 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 28.03.2013
2 400
Final price: 2 400
Dieppe'i motiiv
Konrad Mägi
Dieppe'i motiiv
1911. oil on cardboard 46 x 57 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 26.10.2012
38 500
Final price:
Rooma motiiv
Konrad Mägi
Rooma motiiv
1922-1923. oil on canvas 58.5 x 50.5 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 08.11.2010-10.11.2010
49 851
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Itaalia maastik
Konrad Mägi
Itaalia maastik
1922-1923. -- 85.5 x 62.5 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXII ART AUCTION 2008 spring. Old Masters Paintings Haus Gallery 22.04.2008
58 799
Final price: 73 498
(sold)"> (sold)Capri maastik
Konrad Mägi
Capri maastik
1922-1923. oil on canvas 58.5 x 67.5 cm
HAUS GALLERY´S 10. anniversary art auction Haus Gallery 25.09.2007
33 873
Final price: 127 823
(sold)"> (sold)Saaremaa rand
Konrad Mägi
Saaremaa rand
1913. Oil on cardboard 40 x 50 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVIIth ART AUCTION, 2005 autumn Haus Gallery 20.10.2005
24 286
Final price: 24 286
(sold)"> (sold)Itaalia maastik
Konrad Mägi
Itaalia maastik
1921. Oil on canvas 67 x 58 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVIIth ART AUCTION, 2005 autumn Haus Gallery 20.10.2005
34 512
Final price: 41 606
(sold)"> (sold)Saaremaa
Konrad Mägi
Saaremaa
1913. Oil on cardboard 38 x 48 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XVIth ART AUCTION, 2005 spring Haus Gallery 25.04.2005
18 854
Final price: 18 854
(sold)"> (sold)Rannamaastik
Konrad Mägi
Rannamaastik
1913. Oil on cardboard 38 x 48 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVth ART AUCTION, 2004 autumn Haus Gallery 21.10.2004
12 463
Final price: 39 306
(sold)"> (sold)Capri
Konrad Mägi
Capri
1922. Oil on canvas 56 x 68 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XIVth ART AUCTION, 2004 spring Haus Gallery 04.04.2004
11 632
Final price: 64 295
(sold)"> (sold)Maastik kellatorniga (Kihelkonna)
Konrad Mägi
Maastik kellatorniga (Kihelkonna)
1913. Oil on canvas 61 x 68 cm
HAUS GALLERY XIIIth ART AUCTION 2003 autumn Haus Gallery 23.10.2003
10 098
Final price: 21 826
(sold)"> (sold)Normandia maastik
Konrad Mägi
Normandia maastik
1911. Pencil, water-colour, paper 23 x 31 cm
HAUS / XIIth AUCTION, 2003 spring Haus Gallery 24.04.2003
3 132
Final price: 3 132
(sold)"> (sold)Alvine Käppa portree
Konrad Mägi
Alvine Käppa portree
1919. Oil on canvas 102 x 76 cm (not framed)
HAUS / XI AUCTION, 2002 autumn Haus Gallery 24.10.2002
18 279
Final price: 18 279
(sold)"> (sold)Maastik
Konrad Mägi
Maastik
1916. Oil on cardboard 25 x 50 cm (not framed)
HAUS / VII AUCTION, 2000 autumn Haus Gallery 26.10.2000
5 305
Final price: 5 305
Oberstdorfi maastik
Konrad Mägi
Oberstdorfi maastik
1922. Oil on canvas 41 x 26 cm (not framed)
HAUS / V AUCTION, 1999 autumn Haus Gallery 12.10.1999
6 391
Final price:
Lõuna-Eesti maastik
Konrad Mägi
Lõuna-Eesti maastik
1916. Pencil, paper 10 x 15 cm
HAUS / IV AUCTION, 1999 spring Haus Gallery 26.04.1999-24.04.1999
703
Final price:

Appearance in exhibitions

The Field Of Tulips
Konrad Mägi
The Field Of Tulips
1909-1910. Oil, canvas 41 x 60 cm (framed)
WORKS FROM TWO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Haus Gallery 15.02.2023-13.03.2023

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