Bram van Velde - Lithograph - Composition in purple

Lithograph by Bram van Velde.
Dimensions: H59 x W78.5cm.
Dimensions: H27 x W56.5cm.
The work is signed by the artist at the bottom left of the print.
Small discoloration on right side. Not visible after framing.
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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.