“Tal under Solen” (figures under the sun) circa 1961 – oil / board, framed 1961

Mogens Balle

Oil on canvas laid down on panelMarouflage
43 ⨯ 48 ⨯ 5 cm
ConditionVery good
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• About the artwork
  An original oilpainting on canvas, laid down on board. (Schmidt 1961-032)
  Signed (monogrammed) "MB" by the artist (front, bottom left).
  Verso two atelier-stamps and a gallery label.
  Professionally framed in a gilded, wooden frame with linnen insert.
  
  
  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.
  
  Condition
  Good original condition, professionally framed.
  
  Provenance
  World House gallery, Middlebury (CT) USA
  Private collection, Denmark
  
  Literature
  Henning Smidth - Mogens Balle: Cataloque Raissonée, no. 1961-032, p. 189
  
  Dimensions
  Frame
  Height 43,8 cm
  Width 48,7 cm
  Depth 5,5 cm
• About the artist

  Mogens Balle (Copenhagen, 1921 - Copenhagen, 1988) was a Danish painter and writer and member of the Cobra movement.

  Balle first studied to be an architect, but dropped out to focus on the visual arts. In 1947 he co-founded the artists' association Spiralen, where he got to know artists such as Asger Jorn and Wilhelm Freddie.

  After first focusing on Naturalism, he switched from 1945 to abstract painting, in which fantasy figures were shown. After his Cobra period, his work became more and more abstract. He also made Peinture mots, in which word and image were merged into one work.

  From the 1960s he also made bronze sculptures of his fantasy figures.