How much does La Perla cost?

La Perla (2026) is priced at $33,800 USD. The work is currently available for acquisition directly from the studio, through partner galleries, or via 1stDibs.

What are the dimensions and medium of La Perla?

La Perla (2026) measures 200 × 150 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil stick on canvas.

How can I acquire a painting by Claus Bertermann?

Works by Claus Bertermann are available directly from the studio, through partner galleries, and via 1stDibs. Contact the studio via the form at bertermann.art/contact.

Does Claus Bertermann have a gallery representative or exclusive agent?

No. Claus Bertermann works as an independent artist without exclusive gallery representation, dealers, or agents. Works are acquired directly from the studio at bertermann.art, through non-exclusive gallery partnerships, and at international auction houses.

What is La Perla about?

La Perla (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 200 × 150 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. The work presents a condition rather than a narrative: a young woman sits at a small round café table, her chin resting on her hand, a red coat around her shoulders and a cobalt-blue scarf thrown over one side. She looks straight at the viewer, calm and unhurried. At her ear hangs a single large teardrop pearl. The title opens a second layer. Every painting of a woman with a pearl earring answers Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, who turns over her shoulder for one second in a dark room. Here the scene is turned around: the woman has arrived and taken her seat, the dark room has become a bright café, and the blue has moved from a turban into a scarf worn as she pleases. In Spanish, la perla is also what one calls a rare and precious person — so the earring is the hint, and the real pearl is the woman at the table. For this work, part of his 2026 figurative series, Claus Bertermann separates the two operations that make the picture. The ground is painted first, in coarse, broad brushstrokes that keep the movement of the arm visible: the yellow and orange window frames, the green plants, the large red field of the coat and the blue sweep of the scarf. The drawing comes afterwards and lies on top of that painted ground — the oil stick sets the brows, the eyes and the fine contours of the face, the coral lips, the hand under the chin, the pearl and its gold fitting, the rim of the round table and the cup on it. The drawn line keeps its independence from the field beneath it. Unlike his abstract works, nothing here is scraped back — the image is built forward: coarse painted ground below, decisive drawn contour above. The composition is upright and close: the woman fills most of the canvas, her head in the upper left half, her red coat spreading across the lower two thirds. Her face is a pale ground of cream and cool blue-grey, drawn in fine ultramarine lines, with green eyes and coral-orange lips; her dark hair is pinned up and streaked with blue and red. The café behind her moves in cadmium yellow, orange and emerald, with a round silver-white lamp at the left edge that echoes the pearl. At the lower right a white round table carries a sketched cup in green and yellow. Anatomy and perspective are intentionally simplified and distorted, prioritising emotional presence over realism. All surface irregularities are intentional and integral to the artist's process. Signed in green oil stick at the lower right and on the back, La Perla reflects Claus Bertermann's ongoing exploration of presence and connection — a museum-scale portrait about a famous jewel, an old pose turned around, and the person who outshines both.

Is La Perla AI-generated?

No. La Perla is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil stick on canvas. All works by Claus Bertermann are made by hand. In a time when AI-generated imagery is increasingly common, every Bertermann painting is a unique physical object, never digitally produced.

La Perla | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

La Perla (2026) — 200 × 150 cm | 79 × 59 in

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas. Hand-painted original — made by a human artist.

La Perla, 2026 — detail 2 | Claus Bertermann

La Perla, 2026, 200 × 150 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

La Perla, 2026 — detail 4 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — La Perla (2026), 200 x 150 cm