Serge Vandercam - '1 'Homme de Tollund - Sold

Original rare lithograph by the famous Belgian CoBrA artist Serge Vandercam (1924-2005), realized on 250 gr vélin arches paper
Printed by master printer Mark Bosselaers on the hand printing press of the
Higher State School of Fine Arts in Anderlecht.

The number of prints is 100, of which no. 6 to no. 90 are available for sale.
Edition, numbered in pencil, number 21/90

Artwork signed in pencil by the artist

Provenance: Collection BBL (Banque Bruxelles Lambert)
Professionally framed by Maison Van Thienen Brussels

THE MAN FROM TOLLUND
In 1962, Serge Vandercam discovered 'the Man of Tollund' in a local museum near Silkeborg, an exceptionally well-preserved mummy of a man from the Neolithic period, who had been sacrificed about 2,000 years earlier and was found in a local bog in 1950.
Serge Vandercam was fascinated by this mummy, which would henceforth form an essential part of his creative world. Thanks to the Tollund Man, Vandercam immersed himself in the world of figurative art. In 1963, this led to an exhibition of the same name in the Galerie Delta in Rotterdam. His friend Hugo Claus wrote a long, epic poem for it, which sings the tragedy of a sacrificed man who henceforth forms the inseparable bond between life, suffering and death, to ultimately be reborn as a better person.

COBRA: Karel Appel, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Corneille, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Christian Dotremont