Abstract Composition, circa 1970 – oil on canvas, professionally framed 1970 - 1973

Mogens Balle

SegeltuchÖlfarbeFarbe
43 ⨯ 50 ⨯ 5 cm
ConditionVery good
€ 3.175

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• Über Kunstwerk
  An original oilpainting on canvas, Abstract Composition (Smidth 197x-078). Painted by Danish artist Mogens Balle between 1970 and 1973 (dated by Grete Balle). Signed “MB” by the artist (front, bottom left). Professionally framed in a bespoke, painted wooden frame.
  
  
  About Mogens Balle
  
  Mogens Balle (Copenhagen 1921 – Kalundborg 1988) was a Danish painter, sculpture and writer. Born and raised in Copenhagen Mogens Balle started his education to become a architect but decided to focus on the visual arts instead.
  
  In 1946 he traveled to Paris where he met fellow Danish artists Asger Jorn and Wilhelm Freddie. His connection with the group “Spiralen” and his acquaintance with Asger Jorn had a decisive influence on his development.
  
  Jorn introduced Balle to the international artistmovement “CoBra”. During the later years of the 1940’s Balle’s style evoled from naturalistic to his personal style characterized by abstract, colouristic tendencies, combined with figure associations.
  
  From the early 1960 onwards his work became increasingly abstract losing the figurarative associations. Also in the 1960’s Balle made his first sculptures and experimented with peinture-mots, works in which he combined words and image.
  
  Mogens Balle work is part of the collections of many International Museums like The Cobra-Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art and Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée among others.
  
  Signed
  Monogrammed "MB" front bottom, left.
  
  Condition
  Good original condition, professionally framed.
  
  Provenance
  Catalogue Raisonné Smidth no. 197X-078
  Dated by Grete Balle (1970 – 1973).
  
  Dimensions
  Artwork
  Height 24 cm
  Width 33 cm
  
  Frame
  Height 43 cm
  Width 50 cm
  Depth 5 cm
• Über Künstler

  Mogens Balle (Kopenhagen, 1921 - Kopenhagen, 1988) war ein dänischer Maler und Schriftsteller und Mitglied der Cobra-Bewegung.

  Balle studierte zunächst Architekt, brach das Studium jedoch ab, um sich auf die bildende Kunst zu konzentrieren. 1947 war er Mitbegründer der Künstlervereinigung Spiralen, wo er Künstler wie Asger Jorn und Wilhelm Freddie kennenlernte.

  Nachdem er sich zunächst auf den Naturalismus konzentriert hatte, wechselte er ab 1945 zur abstrakten Malerei, in der Fantasiefiguren gezeigt wurden. Nach seiner Cobra-Zeit wurde sein Werk immer abstrakter. Er fertigte auch Peinture Mots an, in denen Wort und Bild zu einem Werk verschmolzen.

  Ab den 1960er Jahren fertigte er auch Bronzeskulpturen seiner Fantasiefiguren an.

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