Bram van Velde - Litho: Composition

Lithograph by Bram van Velde. Composition. Circulation: 104/300. Top dimensions: H65.5 x w48.5cm. Dimensions: H61.5 x W47cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right, in pencil. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.


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Abraham Gerardus (Bram) van Velde (Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk, October 19, 1895 – Grimaud, France, December 28, 1981) was a Dutch painter.




Biography
Van Velde's grave in Arles
Van Velde was born in 1895 in Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk as the son of the merchant Willem van Velde and Hendrika Catharina van der Voorst. After completing primary school, Van Velde started working in a house painter's company. He developed from a house painter and decorative painter to a painter. He settled in Worpswede, Germany in 1922 and then worked, from 1925, in Paris, where his brother Geer van Velde joined him for a while, and on the French island of Corsica. In the 1930s, the brothers met the Irish writer Samuel Beckett in Paris, who published about both artists. This contact, which intensified after the Second World War, created interest in their work and they were invited to exhibitions, first in Paris and later in New York and elsewhere. Works by Van Velde can be found in museum collections in England, France, the Netherlands, the United States and Switzerland.
Van Velde died in 1981 at the age of 86 in Grimaud, France.
Work
Bram van Velde's later work is sometimes considered to be part of lyrical abstraction, in which he built up non-figurative compositions by placing areas of color against each other with a contour line. Initially he still incorporated figurative elements in his work, which seemed to refer to the expressionism of members of the artists' colony Worpswede, where Van Velde stayed for a short time. But unlike the artists of CoBrA, no figurative elements or references to figuration are visible in Bram van Velde's paintings from the 1950s onwards. His compositions, which he also regularly realized in gouache or in the form of lithographs, have no titles and are composed purely of flat surfaces and shapes in colors. Appreciation for his work came relatively late and important museum presentations of his work in Europe and the United States only followed from the late 1950s: Bern (1958), Amsterdam (1959), Paris (1961 and 1970).