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

Mogens Balle

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43 ⨯ 50 ⨯ 5 cm
ConditionVery good
€ 3.175

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• Sobre la obra de arte
  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
• Sobre el artista

  Mogens Balle (Copenhague, 1921 - Copenhague, 1988) fue un pintor y escritor danés y miembro del movimiento Cobra.

  Balle primero estudió para ser arquitecto, pero lo abandonó para centrarse en las artes visuales. En 1947 cofundó la asociación de artistas Spiralen, donde conoció a artistas como Asger Jorn y Wilhelm Freddie.

  Después de centrarse primero en el naturalismo, pasó de 1945 a la pintura abstracta, en la que se mostraban figuras de fantasía. Después de su período Cobra, su trabajo se volvió cada vez más abstracto. También hizo Peinture mots, en los que la palabra y la imagen se fusionaron en una sola obra.

  A partir de la década de 1960 también realizó esculturas en bronce de sus figuras de fantasía.

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