Gustav Bolin studied in Paris with Emile Othon Friesz at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière. During the first years of the war, he lived in Antibes in the South of France. During this period, landscapes were his greatest source of inspiration, and he made a close study of the work of Paul Cézanne. Returning to Paris in 1943, he worked in the studio of Pierre Tal-Coat and frequented the Café de Flore, where he kept company with members of the first generation of the School of Paris, including Picasso, Nicolas de Staëll and Diego Giacometti. At this time, he painted numerous portraits of his family, friends and the artistic characters of Montmartre. The artist held his first solo exhibition at the Pierre Loeb Gallery in 1948, gaining immediate recognition from both critics and the public. The recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, Bolin exhibited with success internationally including in Stockholm, New York and Tokyo. His work may be found in the permanent collections of national museums including the Muséed'Art Moderne, Paris. In 2006, Paris honored him with a retrospective of his work at the Salon of Tapestries and at the exhibition hall of the Louvre des Antiquaires. Bolin is listed in all relevant reference works including Benezit Dictionary of Artists, which lists a comprehensive biography that includes a signature sample.
Campagne Contre Jour, Antibes
By Gustav Bolin
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right; signed, dated, and titled verso. 38.25 x 51.25 in. 39.75 x 52....
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Spring
By Gustav Bolin
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 35 x 45.5 in. 36.5 x 47 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid...
Canvas, Oil
Remembering Plains no. 54
By Alyson Kinkade
Located in Loveland, CO
Remembering Plains no.54 by Alyson Kinkade 8" x 8" oil on linen ©2021 gallery wrapped, black sides The allure of the horizon of the Great Plains, where waves of colors meet sky. AB...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$5,227
H 31.5 in W 31.5 in D 0.79 in
Abstract Composition – Original Oil on Canvas – 31.5 x 31.5 in
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
"A masterful expression of French lyrical abstraction, in a timeless, elegant palette." Pierre Coquet (1926–2021) Abstract Composition Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 x 2 cm (31.5 x 31.5 x 0...
Oil, Canvas
$2,650
H 40 in W 30 in
Before the Rain, Abstract Landscape Painting, Oil on Canvas, 40x30
By Betty Efferson
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
Before the Rain I & II are a pair of paintings that flow into each other featuring dreary waters, lush lily pads, and lively koi. While the colors are a bit on the gloomy side,...
Canvas, Oil
$1,528
H 45.5 in W 35 in
Huge French Mid Century Cubist Male Portrait Figure Smoky Colours Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Mid Century Cubist Portrait Oil Painting indistinctly signed, mid 20th century period oil on canvas Canvas size: 45.5 x 35 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris A stri...
Oil
$1,144
H 21 in W 19.5 in
North African Town Scene Plam Tree and Buildings Signed Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
North African City View signed, possibly Durieli Andre? dated 2005 verso? signed oil on cardboard, framed inscribed verso framed: 21 x 19.5 inches painting: 18 x 17 inches Provenance...
Oil, Cardboard
$2,207
H 17.72 in W 19.69 in D 1.58 in
Abstract composition, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet - Abstract Composition in white shades Reference number A202 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 40 x 45 cm (45 x 50 cm frame included) This work is painted with oil on a board. It is signed and dated 83 in the bottom right. Pierre was very sensitive to abstract paintings. He did a lot of abstract works melting colors and shapes in different atmosphere and style. Nevertheless he could come back to figuration and again to abstraction with no precise period of time. Provenance : Workshop of the artist Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin. He won a prize in 1945 and joined a movement that wanted to be outside of any school whose name ends with “ism”, (like impressionism, cubism…) between figuration and the renaissance of Abstract Art, bringing together young generations under thirty and eager not to submit to any technique. The “Sanzism” (literally without « ism ») will bring together, among others, painters: James Bansac, Roger Bravard, André Chaix, Jean Mélinand, Paul Clair, André Cottavoz, Pierre Doye, Jean Fusaro, Jacques Truphémus, André Lauran, Edouard Mouriquand, Pierre Palué, Paul Philibert-Charrin, Antoine Sanner and Françoise Juvin. The latter will become his wife in 1948. In 1949, he participated in an exhibition in Geneva, at the Musée de l'Athénée, entitled "Eleven French painters" with Jacques Truphémus and Jean Fusaro. Françoise and Pierre moved to Paris in 1950. There he met Alexandre Garbell, who encouraged him and whom he attended classes in his academy on Boulevard de Clichy. Working as an art teacher at the Corvisart school in Paris he painted a lot beside this activity. His main subjects are “assemblages of objects” which evoke the memory of Giorgio Morandi, the roofs of Paris, still lifes, characters in situation, and abstraction. This sincere and modest man, turned inward in a climate of deep meditation, likes to express his feeling that “all painters encounter the same difficulties in wanting to express unspeakable emotions with painting. Everything is possible, at the condition it is true ” use to say Pierre. I have known Pierre for a long time and organized several exhibition with their paintings. I am now taking care of the whole workshop providing beautifiul figurative and abstract works, paintings and many drawings with various sizes. Pierre was always working in his workshop, everyday, he needed it, painting was something vital to him. Paintings by Pierre...
Oil, Board
$1,568
H 21 in W 28 in
1950's French Modernist Cityscape Colourful Architectural Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Modernist Cityscape Colourful Architectural Landscape Oil Painting by Jacques Courtade (French, 1923-1994) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 21 x 28 inches private collection ov...
Oil
$1,045
H 20.87 in W 15.75 in D 0.79 in
Campfire 19 June 00:04 - Modern Expressive Forest Night Landscape Painting
By Robert Motelski
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Oil
$1,700
H 35.5 in W 47.5 in D 1.5 in
Modernist Flowers, Skin Tones Tiles, Geometric Minimalist Painting on Canvas
By Natalia Roman
Located in Barcelona, ES
Modernist Flowers is a beautiful painting by Spanish artist Natalia Roman that combines the structured language of Bauhaus shapes with the softness of geometric minimalism. Built thr...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Joy flows away
By André Lanskoy
Located in PARIS, FR
Famous french painter of XXth century, born in Moscow in 1902 and died in Paris in 1976. The Count André Lanskoy works are exhibited in the world's greatest museums like : National ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,020
H 35.44 in W 51.19 in D 0.79 in
Water 11 September 14:32 - Modern Minimalistic Landscape Oil Painting, See View
By Robert Motelski
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Oil
$929Sale Price|20% Off
H 6.7 in W 17.33 in D 0.79 in
Composition Abstraite, Oil on Board, French School, Signed, 1989
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Reference number A161 Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame (add 200 euros) 17 x 44 cm This work is painted with oil on a board. . It is signed and dated 1989 in ...
Oil, Board
Normandie, pommier en fleurs
By Gustav Bolin
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed lower left, signed and titled verso. 51.5 x 64 inches 52.25 x 64.75 inches (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Born in Stockholm in 1920 to a distinguished family of goldsmiths who had supplied the Russian tsars and the Swedish royal family for three generations, Gustav Bolin was taken to France the following year, where he would remain for the rest of his life. At the age of 18, he began working in the Paris studio of Othon Friesz, but that experience was soon interrupted by the Nazi occupation in 1940. Bolin sought refuge in the south of France, where he befriended the artists André Lhote, Alexandre Garbell, Pierre Tal-Coat and Charles Rollier, with whom he exhibited at the Musée de Valence. In 1943, before returning to Paris, he made a pilgrimage through Provence in the footsteps of Cezanne and Van Gogh. The landscapes of this region would serve as his lifelong muse, inspiring the whimsical, abstract landscapes for which he became widely acclaimed. Following Paris’ liberation by the Allies, Bolin returned to the city and immersed himself in the artistic milieu around the Café Dôme, becoming good friends with Alberto Giacometti and Nicolas de Staël. His first post-war exhibitions began in 1947 at the Salon de Mai, followed by a solo show at the avant-garde Galerie Pierre Loeb in 1948. He became a frequent exhibitor at the Galerie Art Vivant, showing with contemporaries such as de Staël, Tal-Coat, Joan Miró, Jacques Germain, and André Lanskoy, on several occasions between 1950 and 1957. This early commercial success afforded him the opportunity to purchase property along the coast in Antibes, where he could work in the Mediterranean landscape he loved. Bolin continued to participate in the Salon de Mai, and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, cementing his reputation as an evocative colorist. In 1960, 61, and 63, he was invited by the Galerie Charpentier to participate in the “Ecole de Paris” exhibitions; and at Galerie Kriegel between 1962 and 1969. Beginning in 1963, Bolin enjoyed further prominence by accepting invitations to exhibit in the U.S. with the David Findlay Gallery in New York, and also in Japan at the Nichido Gallery in Tokyo. In 1973, he was awarded a major exhibition at the Musée Galliera in back home in Paris. Bolin would continue to show widely and steadily over the remainder of his life, including a number of exhibitions in his native Sweden. Bolin died in Antibes in 1999. Today, Bolin’s work can be found in many public collections including the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, the Museum of Luxembourg, the Swedish Embassy (Paris), and the Department des Arts et des Lettres. Source: Hanina Fine Arts...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 32.68 in W 40.16 in D 0.99 in
Au Café, Hommage à de Stael , Large Mid 20th Century Oil on Canvas.
By Gustav Bolin
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large mid-20th century oil on canvas of a cafè scene by Swedish artist Gustav Bolin, signed and dated bottom left. In period giltwood frame. Gustav Bolin was a painter of Swedish an...
Canvas, Oil