Bram Bogart - Olieverf op board: Winterlandschap met molen (mooie lijst, goede herkomst!) - Sold

Oil on board by Bram Bogart (1921-2012) with a very good provenance. The sticker of Kunsthandel Bennewitz, Noordeinde 48, The Hague is still on the back of the work. See also the interview, from 2007, which was published in Kunstmagazine (https://www.kunstmagazine.net/news/article/113). Bennewitz was one of the first admirers of the work of Brom Bogart. He regularly bought paintings from him.

Title: Winter landscape with mill. Dimensions including frame: H57 x W66 cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H39 x W49 cm. The work is signed 'Bogart' at the bottom right by the artist. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

Passe-partout/frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. Reflection may be visible in photos of framed works.

What Theo was to Vincent van Gogh, Bennewitz was to Bram Bogart. 'Bennewitz has bought paintings from me very regularly since that first meeting. He was convinced of the quality of my work. That was of course an important stimulus for me. I still lived at home and did nothing but paint in the attic. My father thought that was wonderful. Sometimes he came up with visitors to show me how I was doing. During the war I spent a little more than a year at the academy in The Hague to obtain an exemption from employment. I started with landscapes and still lifes, inspired by pointillism and work by Vincent van Gogh and Constant Permeke. Two painters that I admired very much. Then I went my own way. I've always been on my own.


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. We can also ship the work. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.



Origin:
-Art Halls Bennewitz, The Hague.

Bram Bogart (Delft, July 12, 1921 – Sint-Truiden, May 2, 2012) was a Dutch/Belgian abstract painter, sculptor, graphic artist, ceramist and designer. He was also known as Abraham van den Boogaart. He was naturalized as a Belgian in 1969

Because Bogart was trained as a house painter, he was experienced in mixing his own special paint substances in which he beat the oil paint with water. Because the water in the oil paint dries much faster than the oil paint, many 'drying channels' arose in the applied paste-like paint mass. These ensured that the enormous thick layers of oil paint on the canvas were allowed to air and dry from the inside; if not, most of his works had long since faded, such as some of Karel Appel's paintings. Bogart's paintings actually consist of only a few solid brushstrokes of one color each, which are also a large shape. And some of these brushstrokes put together on the (firmly stretched and supported canvas) together form the entire painting.
Bogart made his mixed paint substance from standing and boiled poppy oil (in 200-litre barrels) which he allowed to mature first. He then mixed these with pigment powders in one preselected color and with zinc white. Just before painting itself, this substance was smashed with water, after which the paint had to be quickly applied to the horizontal canvas. So Bogart knew beforehand in which colors (often four to six) he wanted to make the painting, and the place where he would place the paint mass on the canvas. After this thoughtful phase, there was a really emotional phase of applying the paint. But due to his characteristic method, nothing clogged from the paint, so that the openness remains intact and the mobility of the physical application of the paint is also visible; these are an essential element of his art. He applied his characteristic method to 2 meter cloths, but also to small size cloths of, for example, 50 cm. From the eighties he alternated his 'geometric' works with paintings consisting of enormous 'dots of paint' which he placed more or less in a regular pattern; this then characterized the entire painting