Bleu Sombre

Details

Bram Bogart (1921-2012)
Bleu Sombre
signed and dated 'Bogart '60' (lower right); signed, titled, numbered and dated 'BOGART juli '60 BLEU SOMBRE 10' (on the reverse)
mixed media relief on burlap in artist's frame
overall: 132.5 x 101.5 x 3 cm.
Executed in 1960

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1985.

Literature

D. Hughes (ed.), Bram Bogart. The early Years 1951-1965, London 1989, no. 26 (illustrated, unpaged).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

‘Making a painting in one colour, either white, black or brown, evoked a kind of tranquility in me. When making a painting in one colour – monochrome in other words – I want the field of tension to be retained’.
(Bram Bogart quoted on https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bogart-absolution-t14204/text-display-caption [accessed 30 September 2015])

Bleu Sombre

Lot Essay

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