Is La Sentinelle available for purchase?

La Sentinelle is currently reserved. For inquiries about this work or similar available paintings, please contact the studio at bertermann.art/contact.

What are the dimensions and medium of La Sentinelle?

La Sentinelle (2026) measures 210 × 160 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 Sentinelle about?

La Sentinelle (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 210 × 160 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. The work presents a condition rather than a narrative: a woman seated before a sweeping landscape, richly adorned and radiating calm, unhurried authority. She is a sentinel — yet the picture is built on a quiet contradiction. A guard never faces the treasure; she faces the direction the danger comes from. The green terraces and blue mountains lie at her back, and her eyes are fixed on the space in front of the canvas, where the viewer stands. What she protects — the land, a memory, a border only she can see — the painting deliberately withholds. Her face is divided into two colour zones, pale daylight and turquoise shadow, as if she held the day watch and the night watch at once; her gloved hands rest folded and empty, because her authority is the only weapon she needs. For this work, part of his 2026 expressionist series, Claus Bertermann paints the entire field wet-in-wet with large brushes — figure, costume and landscape laid down while the paint is still live, so colours bleed and merge and boundaries dissolve. On top of this fluid ground he brings back the oil stick from his earlier figurative work in a single, precise role: the drawn golden lines of the earrings and lace gloves, sitting visibly on the merged acrylic surface. The image is built forward, not scraped back — volatile colour below, decisive drawn line above. The composition centres on the seated figure, shown from the knees up: dark hair pinned high, a flame-orange jacket edged in cobalt blue over a black ruffled blouse worked with white, grey and ochre, a chair of deep blues and violets framing her like a throne. Behind her, a green meadow and dark hedges give way to terraced hills, a dark-blue mountain range and a broadly brushed summer sky; at the left edge a tree in full blossom bursts in reds, pinks and corals around a pale pink trunk. Anatomy and perspective are intentionally simplified and distorted, prioritising emotional weight over realism. All surface irregularities are intentional and integral to the artist's process. Signed by the artist on the front and back, La Sentinelle reflects Claus Bertermann's ongoing exploration of presence, authority and the charged space between viewer and viewed — a museum-scale work that balances expressive force with quiet psychological tension.

Is La Sentinelle AI-generated?

No. La Sentinelle 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 Sentinelle | Figurative Works

La Sentinelle (2026) — 210 × 160 cm | 83 × 63 in

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

La Sentinelle, 2026 — detail 13 | Claus Bertermann

La Sentinelle, 2026, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

La Sentinelle, 2026 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — La Sentinelle (2026), 210 x 160 cm