Bram van Velde - Litho - 1971 - Sold

Framed color lithograph, on arches paper, by Bram van Velde. Year: 1971. Literature: cat no: MP66. Edition: 3/100. Dimensions including frame: H79.5 x W60cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H68 x W50cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.
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Shipping/picking up:
Upon purchase, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, when paid in advance, is very long, ie the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and if possible combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach.

Van Velde was born in Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk in 1895 as the son of merchant Willem van Velde and Hendrika Catharina van der Voorst. After his primary school years, Van Velde started working for a house painter. He developed from house painter and decorative painter to painter. He settled in Worpswede in Germany in 1922 and then worked, from 1925, in Paris, where his brother Geer van Velde joined him for some time, and on the French island of Corsica. In the 1930s, the brothers met the Irish writer Samuel Beckett in Paris, who published about both artists. This contact, which intensified after the Second World War, sparked interest in their work and they were invited to exhibitions, first in Paris and later in New York and elsewhere. Works by Van Velde can be found in museum collections in England, France, the Netherlands, the United States and Switzerland.

Van Velde died in 1981 at the age of 86 in Grimaud in France.

Work
Bram van Velde's later work is considered to be part of lyrical abstraction, in which he built up non-figurative compositions by placing color surfaces against each other with a contour line. Initially he did incorporate figurative elements in his work, which still seemed to refer to the expressionism of members of the artists' colony Worpswede, where Van Velde stayed for a short time. However, unlike with the artists of CoBrA, from the 1950s onwards, no figurative elements or references to figuration are discernible in Bram van Velde's paintings. His compositions, which he also regularly realized in gouache or in the form of lithographs, have no titles and are then only made up of flat surfaces and shapes in colours. Appreciation for his work came relatively late and important museum presentations of his work in Europe and the United States did not follow until the end of the 1950s: Bern (1958), Amsterdam (1959), Paris (1961 and 1970).