Magnus Showed Me Some Love. 2013.
Mixed media. Oil, oil chalks and charcoal on canvas.
200 x 250 cm (78.7 x 98.4 in). [CH].

• Despite its impressive size the work is particularly captivating for its delicate and airy painting and its consistent, almost confusing minimalism.
• Until 2012 Rosa studied in the class of Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
• In 2015 Christian Rosa's works were shown in the solo show "Put Your Eye In Your Mouth" at the renonwed London White Cube gallery (Mason's Yard).
• The magazine "Die Zeit" called him the "Bad Boy of painting" in 2016.

PROVENANCE: Ibid.Projects, London/Los Angeles.
Private collection Great Britain.
Private collection North Rhine Westphalia (acquired from aforementioned).

"Red hat, fair complexion, carefully chosen tattoos, tall, immature, willing to transform and not so easy. In short: superstar material."
The magazine 'Die Zeit' about the artist Christian Rosa, quote from: Christian Rosa. Bad Boy der Malerei, January 28, 2016, www.zeit.de/2016/05/christian-rosa-malerei-ausstellung-wien

Large-size painting in good condition. Maregins with faint isolated soiled spots. Bottom center with a small pressure mark. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of knowledge.