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

Mogens Balle

CanvasOlieverfVerf
43 ⨯ 50 ⨯ 5 cm
ConditionVery good
€ 3.175

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• Over 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
• Over kunstenaar

  Mogens Balle (Kopenhagen, 1921 - Kopenhagen, 1988) was een Deens kunstschilder en schrijver en aangesloten bij de Cobra-beweging.

  Balle studeerde eerst voor architect, maar stopte deze studie om zich met de beeldende kunst bezig te gaan houden. In 1947 was hij medeoprichter van de kunstenaarsvereniging Spiralen, waar hij kunstenaars als Asger Jorn en Wilhelm Freddie leerde kennen.

  Na zich eerst op het Naturalisme gericht te hebben, ging hij vanaf 1945 over op de abstracte schilderkunst, waarin fantasiefiguren getoond werden. Na zijn Cobra-periode werd zijn werk steeds abstracter. Hij maakte ook Peinture-mots, waarbij woord en beeld in één werk samengevoegd werden.

  Vanaf de jaren 60 maakte hij ook bronzen beelden van zijn fantasiefiguren.

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