Super Classic Heads
The latest release under Thierry Noir Primary is of my new Super Classic Head series of 30cm by 24cm original paintings.
Super Classic Heads
Thierry Noir (b. 1958)
Signed, titled and dated verso in marker
Acrylic on canvas
30cm by 24cm
Year of creation: 2025
Series: Super Classic
£1,800 GBP per painting
Free worldwide shipping in foam lined wooden crate
Ships in November / December 2025
By application on
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Super Classic Heads
Noir's Super Classic Heads have been an ever present within his artistic oeuvre since their origins in the 1980s origins on small pieces of found cardboard that Noir would frame and sell directly to the patrons of bars and restaurants in the Charlottenburg district of West Berlin on his regular nightly visits. In the early 2000s Noir then gravitated towards 30cm by 24cm canvases owing to the readily availability of this pre-fabricated format in Berlin art supply shops. Today, while the recognisable dimensions remain, the canvases are hand made using Italian cloth.
Known informally within collector circles as ‘24x30s‘, Super Classic Heads are arguably Noir’s most recognisable and essential small paintings. Distilling everything iconic about Noir’s visual language and artistic style into a single artwork, their creation forms a daily meditation for Noir to which he often returns after particularly challenging projects involving prolonged periods of travel.
Minutes after completion, Noir titles and dates each Super Classic Head on the reverse in marker to, in his own words, ‘complete the painting'. As important to Noir as the visual image, the titles consist of the overheard daily philosophies and concerns compiled and caught by Noir throughout the bars and restaurants of 1980s West Berlin. In 2025 Noir carries forward this same ‘street philosophy’ imagining what is still being talked about and discussed all the while with his now characteristic humorous and surrealistic twists.
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