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Necdet Kalay (1932-1986) Click for Artist Information
"Istanbul Haliç"
THIS PAINTING WAS ACQUIRED FROM NECCDET KALAY’S 1982 EXHIBITION AT WILMA WAYNE FINE ARTS GALLERY IN LONDON...
ONE OF NECDET KALAY’S MOST POPULAR COMPOSITIONS: “BARGES ON THE GOLDEN HORN”…
In this impressive composition, Necdet Kalay presents a powerful and original interpretation of the Golden Horn, one of Istanbul’s iconic landscapes. The painting is painted with a dark palette dominated by misty grays, browns and off-whites; from this atmosphere, the historical silhouette of Istanbul with its domes and minarets appears out of the fog. In the foreground, a series of barges and steamships are lined up on the water’s edge; the smoke rising from their chimneys and colorful details (yellow and red tones) create a vivid contrast to the overall melancholic atmosphere of the work.
Shaped by Kalay’s characteristically expressive brush strokes and surface textures, this work reflects the artist’s ability to convey the spirit of a space with an abstract yet impressive language. Painting Istanbul not with photographic clarity but through a filter of memory, emotion and movement, Kalay brings together an impressionist haze with the materiality of oil painting. In the work, the coexistence of the old and the new, the sacred and the industrial, stands out as a theme frequently used by the artist in his work.
Oil on canvas
70 x 100 cm
1978, signed
Provenance: Sevin & Nazım Sadıkoğlu Collection
Estimate: 90.000 TL - 130.000 TL
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Necdet Kalay
Necdet Kalay (1932 - 1986)
Necdet Kalay was born in Istanbul in 1932. After completing his primary and secondary education in Istanbul, he started his art education by taking lessons from sculptor Faruk Morel and painter Şeref Akdik. Between 1954 and 1957, he attended classes as a guest student at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, now known as Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts.
In 1958, one of his paintings was accepted to the Fine Arts Union Exhibition held in Ankara and thus his artistic life began. He opened his first solo exhibition in Istanbul in 1960. From 1969 onwards, he stopped doing other jobs and started to earn his living entirely by painting. He sold many paintings in this period when the interest of collectors in Turkey shifted towards local painters. He participated in many exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. In the 1970s, he decided to continue his painting studies abroad. In his paintings with a predominantly decorative aspect, Kalay depicted Anatolian landscapes with broad brush strokes. The impressionist artist preferred to use mostly gray tones and pastel colors. Necdet Kalay passed away in 1986 in Istanbul.
