Nikolai Triik

1884 - 1940

Perseus. 1908-1913

Water-colours, pencil, paper. Lm. 21 x 18 cm
Starting price 4 986 (sold)


Nikolai Triik "Perseus"

Nikolai Triik is a celebrity of the Estonian art, without who it would be impossible to describe the beginning of the 20.century. From time to time have come out some works from his later creative periods and on themes, being of secondary importance to the artist, but “Perseus” is exactly that Triik, who has been written into the art history of the 20.century. This is an early Triik, being at his creative peak and being carried by the most innovative moods. His creative energy is fresh and free from any kind of routine. His approach is in direct contact with moods that were spreading at the same time in Europe. His themes are novel, his painting skills brilliant.

Ene Lamp has written a study of expressionism in the Estonian art. This study, handling one of the most important trends of the 20.century, brings to the fore the importance of the creation of Nikolai Triik. “With pathos and tension,” writes Lamp, “is depicted here a suffering man, suffering in the abstract, existential meaning”. Lamp claims that the push towards expressionism was given to Triik by his staying in Berlin for a couple of years, where he got acquainted with German art, but also experienced himself helplessness and poverty. Still Lamp writes that this trend was expressed in the creation of Triik already before Berlin. (This is also the reason of the wide scale of dating of “Perseus”). More probable is still the belonging of “Perseus” rather into the later period, when Triik accomplished several small-size compositions. Similar is also the testing technique, as the result of which is assumed that maybe Triik planned to develop them later in large works. Here can already be detected the specific features of Triik’s expressionism: it does not deal with social criticism, but as Lamp puts it – “Triik’s small compositions develop the motif of a man in half a symbolist-mythical shell”.

One can get a hunch of accumulation of tensions, man has been given “to the mercy of powers stronger than him”. Also such mood is prevailing in “Perseus”– a skilful work joining jugend, symbolism and expressionism, which has also been born from personal sufferings, telling us about that period, humiliation, despair. In the first range it is a rare art historical discovery. It is something that is hard to repeat. Nikolai Triik. The creative peak. A discovery

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Appearance in auctions

(sold)"> (sold)Mererand
Nikolai Triik
Mererand
1905. Oil, canvas 27 x 37.5 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's Autumn Auction Haus Gallery 01.11.2018
6 900
Final price: 9 300
(sold)"> (sold)Kingsepa töötuba
Nikolai Triik
Kingsepa töötuba
1905. 34 x 27.5 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's anniversary auction Haus Gallery 03.11.2017
7 600
Final price: 7 900
Rukkiväli
Nikolai Triik
Rukkiväli
1934. colured pencil on cardboard lm 25 x 35 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXVI ART AUCTION. 2014 autumn Haus Gallery 06.10.2014
1 600
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Rannamaastik
Nikolai Triik
Rannamaastik
1905. oil on canvas vm 20.8 x 35.2 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 25.10.2013
5 200
Final price: 5 200
Kadri Triigi portree
Nikolai Triik
Kadri Triigi portree
1927. pancil, paper vm 29.4 x 22.2 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXI ART AUCTION. 2012 spring Haus Gallery 20.04.2012
3 800
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Väikelinna vaade
Nikolai Triik
Väikelinna vaade
1905-1909. Oil on cardboard 42 x 47 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXX ART AUCTION 2011 autumn Haus Gallery 14.10.2011
4 260
Final price: 7 000
(sold)"> (sold)Leetse motiiv
Nikolai Triik
Leetse motiiv
1905. oil on canvas 25.3 x 35.2 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXVI ART AUCTION 2010 spring Haus Gallery 15.04.2010
3 707
Final price:
Vana aed
Nikolai Triik
Vana aed
1915. oil, canvas on cardboard 63.3 x 81 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXIV ART AUCTION 2009 spring Haus Gallery 28.04.2009
59 438
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Soome maastik
Nikolai Triik
Soome maastik
1914. oil on canvas 37.2 x 45 cm
HAUS GALLERY´S 10. anniversary art auction Haus Gallery 25.09.2007
29 399
Final price: 29 399
(sold)"> (sold)Perseus
Nikolai Triik
Perseus
1908-1913. Water-colours, pencil, paper Lm. 21 x 18 cm
HAUS GALLRY XIX ART AUCTION, 2006 autumn. Old Masters Painting Haus Gallery 24.10.2006
4 985
Final price: 11 185
Mererand
Nikolai Triik
Mererand
1905. Oil on canvas 27 x 37 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVIth ART AUCTION, 2005 spring Haus Gallery 25.04.2005
12 143
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Naise portree
Nikolai Triik
Naise portree
1936. Pencil
HAUS / VIII AUCTION, 2001 spring Haus Gallery 26.04.2001
1 853
Final price: 1 853

Appearance in exhibitions

Landscape Of Saaremaa
Nikolai Triik
Landscape Of Saaremaa
1938. Oil, cardboard Vm 30.5 x 47 cm (framed)
WORKS FROM TWO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Haus Gallery 15.02.2023-13.03.2023

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