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(Klagenfurt 1894–1966 Vienna) Stillleben mit Pfirsichen, Glas und Messer (Still life with peaches, glass and knife), 1928, inscribed on label on the reverse: “Boeckl Nachlass Nr. 53”, oil on canvas, 45 x 55 cm, framed Listed and illustrated: Agnes Husslein-Arco, Matthias Bockl, Herbert Boeckl. Retrospektive und Werkverzeichnis, exh. cat. Belvedere, Vienna (ed.), 2010, cat. rais. no. 133 Provenance: Estate of the artist, B53 Martina Lettmayr, Klagenfurt Galerie Würthle, Vienna Private Collection, Vienna Literature: Claus Pack, Zum Werk Herbert Boeckls, in: Alte und Moderne Kunst. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kunsthandwerk und Wohnkultur, vol. 9, issue 77, 1964, p. 29–33, cat. no. 75 Gerbert Frodl, Herbert Boeckl, Salzburg, 1976, cat. rais. no. 87 Exhibition: Munich, Herbert Boeckl, 1954, cat. no. 33 Graz, Herbert Boeckl. Gemälde, Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1979, cat. no. 36 Vienna, Galerie Würthle, 1989 Like many of his generation, Herbert Boeckl, as a young painter, sought artistic inspiration and a connection to the development of modern art in Paris after 1923. It was primarily the painting of Paul Cézanne, the 'father of modern art,' that inspired Boeckl in the 1920s to engage in numerous, yet always highly individual explorations. Cézanne's new perception of form in relation to space and surface undoubtedly sets the tone in this still life. However, Boeckl skillfully juxtaposed the clarity and calm of Cézanne's compositional principles with the expressiveness of Baroque color exuberance and the exaggerated, impastoed volumes of form, creating a striking contrast.