Originals in this selection, Oil on canvas, over 10,000 euro.
Weave, ground, pigment
Oil on canvas is the classic of painting techniques: a stretched fabric, primed, with paint that can be layered, dragged and rubbed. Anyone who wants to find oil paintings on canvas over 10,000 euro for sale usually looks for large formats and a confident handling of the paint.
The canvas gives each brushstroke a slight resistance. Depending on how coarse the weave is, its texture stays visible or disappears under thick paint. On large works you can see how a painter thinks surface and edge together and where the paint is allowed to rest.
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Big pictures, calm walls
In this price class oil paintings often hang above sofas, fireplaces or in stairwells where they get distance. A deep stretcher or a floating frame can give them more weight than a narrow strip, and even lighting brings out the depth of color.
A look at the details
Corner finishing, the back of the canvas and a possible varnish are worth checking. If the work is painted in an impressionist manner, brushwork reads differently up close than from ten feet away.