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

Mogens Balle

Huile sur toile marouflée sur panneauMarouflage
43 ⨯ 48 ⨯ 5 cm
ConditionVery good
Actuellement indisponible via Gallerease

• Sur l'oeuvre d'art
  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
• Sur l'artiste

  Mogens Balle (Copenhague, 1921 - Copenhague, 1988) était un peintre et écrivain danois et membre du mouvement Cobra.

  Balle a d'abord étudié pour devenir architecte, mais a abandonné pour se concentrer sur les arts visuels. En 1947, il cofonde l'association d'artistes Spiralen, où il fait la connaissance d'artistes comme Asger Jorn et Wilhelm Freddie.

  Après s'être d'abord concentré sur le naturalisme, il passe de 1945 à la peinture abstraite, dans laquelle des figures fantastiques sont représentées. Après sa période Cobra, son travail devient de plus en plus abstrait. Il a également réalisé Peinture mots, dans laquelle le mot et l'image ont été fusionnés en une seule œuvre.

  À partir des années 1960, il réalise également des sculptures en bronze de ses personnages fantastiques.