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Bengt Lindstrom - Original Handsigned Engraving
By Bengt Lindström
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Bengt Lindström - Original Handsigned Engraving
The Seven Deadly Sins.
76 x 56 cm
Signed in pencil by Bengt Lindström
Paris, ABCD, 1976.
Original etching in color
Limited edition 90 ex.
This is the unique copy offered to Claude Manesse,
The story of B. Lindström was collected by Frederick Towarnicki, assisted by Agathe Malet-Buisson. The engravings were drawn on the presses of Claude Manesse.
Bengt Lindström (1925-2008)
Bengt Lindström was born on September 3rd, 1925 in Storsjökapell, a small isolated village in the Swedish province of Norrland. The young child thus grew up in that vast, mythical and harsh expanse of mounts, glistening lakes and endless forests known as Lapland. His father was a primary school teacher who was fond of Lapps and who showed great interest in their ethnic group and culture. The child was only three days old when Lapp King Kroik, his godfather, administered the Baptism of the Earth, where the child is conveyed between two roots of a tree to grant him protection from the Gods. Lapps as well as local lumberjacks would occasionally abandon their silent ways to tell him and reveal the tales, legends and mysteries of the Great White North.
1935-1945 : He left Storsjökapell and headed to Härnösand, where he wrote short science-fiction novellas, became a renowned athlete and began to paint.
1944-1946 : Isaac Grünewald Art School in Stockholm, Sweden. Study drawing with Aksel Jörgensen at the Copenhagen Fine Arts School in Denmark. He realized his first two lithographs, Meditation and Le Modèle Etendu (The Stretched Model).
1947-1952 : He arrived in Paris. He travelled to Italy, where he visited Florence and Assisi, developing a deep fascination for Giotto and Cimabue. He was granted a scholarship by Swedish magazine Aftontidningen, which helped him move into a workshop in Arcueil, France. He began working on mosaics.
1953-1967 : He returned to Paris, once again taking up lithography and engraving, which holds a vital position in his work. He moved into a workshop in Rueil-Malmaison. This was the start of his collaboration with the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris. London Tooth & Sons Gallery Director M. Cochrane purchased a large number of his works. He left the workshop in Rueil-Malmaison to settle in Savigny-sur-Orge, France. He began taking to figurative art with Masks, Gods and Monsters. He exhibited with the Nouvelle Figuration Group at the Mathias Feld Gallery. He also began working with the Ariel Gallery in Paris.
1968-1978 : Lindström completed a series of 10 lithographs about Scandinavian mythology. He also completed a series of drypoint works. An association with the Protée Gallery in Toulouse, France, led to exhibitions at the Protée Gallery II in Paris starting in 1984. He executed a large mural painting the Grand Hotel in Härnösand, Sweden. He also made two large frescoes for the Nacksta-Sundsvall covered market in Sweden. He took to sharing his working time between the workshop in Savigny-sur-Orge and the one in Sundsvall. He began collaboration that was to last several years with the ABCD Gallery in Paris, which provided exclusive publication for his engravings and strong ink work. Les Hommes du Nord (Men of the North) was the first of the major tapestries. He published a boxed set album, Eddan, Eddan, Eddan, illustrating Scandinavian mythology. Together with Jacques Putman, he completed two editions of bronze sculptures, Les Enfants Sauvages (The Wild Children).
1979-1982 : He worked on glass, making thirty dishes and goblets for renowned Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda. He painted a car for Volvo, Sweden’s leading car manufacturer. Then, close to his birthplace, he painted gigantic tarpaulins over forty metres high, covering the slopes of the neighbouring Våladalen Mountain, as a protest against the building of a dam. This action caused a sensation and provoked fierce reactions. He also created small painted papier mâché sculptures, Têtes (Heads), as well as some gold and silver jewellery.
1983 : He exhibited seven monumental 3x2.5m works at the Art and History Museum in Stockholm: Les Grands Dieux Ase (The Great Aesir Gods), depicting the gods from Scandinavian mythology: Thor, Odin, Frej, Balder, Ymer, Loki and Unknown God, as well as acrylic paintings about the Valkyries. Les Grands Dieux was ultimately exhibited in a purpose-built chapel adjoining the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in 1996. He completed Thor’s Hammer, a monumental sculpture.
1985-1990 : He lived also in the Alicante region, where Spanish friends found him a new workshop. While there he completed Novelda, an album of lithographs featuring poems by Spanish poet Paco Pastor. He completed a new mural, 5mx5m, for the Västeras Science Institute in Sweden. He then started working with the San Carlo Gallery in Milan, Italy, which coordinated all of the Italian events. Major exhibitions and retrospectives were held in Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Spain. He created two boxed set albums, containing series of 10 aquatints, Monde Autre et Chamanes (Otherworld and Shamans), featuring poems by Michel Perrin.
1991-1994 : He went back to working in black and white, completing some very-large-format works. In Murano, in association with the San Carlo Gallery, he created Grands Verres (Large Glasses), a series of large vases and sculptures made of crystal. He painted Kåtan Mimi, an 8x9m Lapp tent, for the town of Arjeplog in Swedish Lapland. He completed a couple of 2m-high painted polyester sculptures, Lui et Elle (Him and Her). He then made a new series of crystal glasses and sculptures in Murano, Italy. He completed Présence (Presence), a new 3.5x2.7m tapestry for the municipality of Timrå, Sweden. He started on the Grands Initiés (Great Insiders) series, all large format and mixed black and white techniques. He finished the strong series about Norse gods.
1995-1996 : He moved into a new workshop in Paris. A retrospective was held at the Sundsvall Museum in Sweden, and on that occasion he painted a monumental 700-m² canvass, Le Géant sur la montagne (The Giant on the Mountain), which was hung all summer long on the mountain slope facing the town. He went on to complete a suite of six silkscreen prints on the same theme. Then he inaugurated the Y, a monumental sculpture. Lindström then completed Temps Zéro (Zero Time), a watch made for Swatch. One of his works, L’hiver (Winter), made the cover of the first 1996 issue of Telerama, the leading French weekly. In association with Sydkraft Sweden, he painted a fresco for the municipality of Örebro on a 17m-high tank with a surface area of 3,000 m², located at the crossroads of major Swedish motorways, by the entrance to the Åbyverket industrial estate. He also created a 6.5m-high Tången sculpture made of painted concrete in Ånge, which was inaugurated on September 3rd in the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden.
1997-1999 : He began working on ceramics in Albisolla, Italy. He also completed a new 30m-high fresco for the town of Örebro, located close to the tank he had painted in 1996 near Åbyverket. The year saw the inauguration of the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in Sweden, which harbours the collection of the Bengt and Michèle Lindström Foundation, featuring the entire engravings collection (about 800 works), as well as a selection of paintings and sculptures. He completed a 4x10m mural in the lobby of the University of Eskilstuna, Sweden, and also completed two monumental frescoes on the Akkats dam and a mural on the power station facing Jokkmokk in Swedish Lapland.
2000-2003 : He painted all of the sides of a semi-articulated lorry for Scania, Sweden’s main truck manufacturer. In Italy, he completed a new series of crystal sculptures with Adriano Bérengo. He finished the Great Prophets, a series of 2x2m oil on canvass works. Swiss publisher Ides et Calendes published a small but luxurious monograph, with text by Françoise Monnin. A notebook was also published, Le Visage dans l’Art de Bengt Lindström (Faces in the Art of Bengt Lindström). He completed a substantial series of large blue acrylic paintings, Femmes (Women).
2003 : Bengt fell ill and was unable to paint, but the exhibitions went on.
2004 : Saw the release of the film by Dag Jonzon and Hans Östbom, produced by Dell’arte AB and Östbom Filmbild, about the life of Bengt Lindström. Entitled Lindström - Le Diable de la couleur et de la forme (Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil), the film was produced thanks to support from Film Västernorrland, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland and Sveriges Television. It was broadcast on Swedish television channels. That same year, the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre was closed as a result of municipal policy.
2005-2007 : The 6m-high sculpture Le Loup (The Wolf), made for PEAB, was inaugurated in Botkyrka-Stockholm. Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil was screened at the Paris Swedish Cultural Centre and released on DVD. The Michèle and Bengt Lindström Foundation was donated and transferred to the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden, where a special room was prepared to host Les Grands Dieux Ase. Edition of the 1998 Ceramics, created in association with Francis Dellile’s ”La Tuilerie” workshop. The Bengt Lindström Collection was inaugurated at, Murberget, the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden. He illustrated Sinfonietta för Juliana, a collection of poems by Italian poet and art critic Sebastiano Grasso. On January 29th, 2008, Bengt Lindström passed away at his home in Sweden.
2008-2012 : The Fondation Krimaro presents the first volume of the works of Bengt Lindström in his collection. Numerous exhibitions-tribute to the work are presented in major cities in Europe.
2012 : Retrospective - Black and White in the engravings - Museum of Härnösand, Murberget, Sweden.
Main exhibitions
1952 Fair Réalités Nouvelles – New realities, Paris, France.
1953 Craven Gallery, Paris, France.
1954 Gummeson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Fair Salon d’Octobre, Paris, France.
1958 Breteau Gallery, Paris, France.
1959 Autour du Spontanéisme – Around the sontaneity, Stockholm, Sweden. L’Europe Nouvelle – The new Europe, LaUnited Statesnne, Switzerland.
1960 Rive Gauche Gallery, Paris, France.
1961 Tooth Gallery, London, England. Le Zodiaque Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Fair Salon de Mai, Paris, France.
1962 Nouvelle Figuration – New Figuration , Mathias Fels Gallery, Paris, France,
1964 Nord-Sud – North-South, in several cities in Sweden. Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, 15 artists of my generation. Museum of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium, Figuration-Défiguration – Figuration – Disfigurement.
1965 Rive Gauche Gallery. Paris, France. Nord Gallery, Lille, France. Birch Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966 Museum of Modern Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
1967 Veranneman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, United States. Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 23 peintres in Paris.
1968 Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, followed by six exhibitions until 1976.
1969 La Pochade Gallery, Paris, France. Protée Gallery, Toulouse, France, who exhibited him in Paris, Gallery Protée II, from 1984.
1973 Galliera Museum, Paris, France.
1974 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal.
1982 Gallery Protée-Arco, Madrid, Spain and Fair Foire de Cologne, Germany.
1983 Historia Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, The Ase gods and the Valkyries.
1984 Gallery Arcano XXI, Lisbon, Portugal. Gallery Christian Cheneau, Paris, France. Museum Château comtal, Carcassonne, France.
1985 Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain.
1986 Gallery Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain. Gallery Juan Mordo-Arco, Madrid, Spain. Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain. Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Gallery Three Continents, New-York, United States. Gallery Protée, Toulouse France, Autour du Roi Lear – Around King Lear.
1987 Gallery Kostel, Paris, France. Gallery Zwirner, Cologne, Germany. Gallery Leu, Rottach-Egern, Germany.
1988 Maison du Lot, Figeac, France. Gallery Protée, Paris, France. Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France
1989 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France, La terre des ancêtres - The Land pf the ancestors. Gallery Protée, Paris, France, Nomads. Gallery Raab, London, England.
1990 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France. Centre Culturel de Brest, France.
1991 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France.
1992 Archotèque, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France. Museum of Vesoul, Vesoul, France. Gallery San Carlo, Milan, Italy.
1993 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal. Tonnellerie du Cognac Monnet...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Raoul Dufy - Beauty - Original Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - Beauty - Original Etching
Dimensions: 13 x 10".
Edition of 200
1940
Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris
Raoul Dufy
Born in 1877, the French painter Raoul Dufy was...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Alfons Mucha - Original Lithograph - Femmes Art Nouveau
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Decorative Documents
Author: Alfons Mucha.
Publisher: Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 13 Rue Lafayette. Emile Levy publisher. Published ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Raoul Dufy - Adam and Eve in Modernity - Original Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - Haussmann Architecture - Original Etching
Dimensions: 13 x 10".
Edition of 200
1940
Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris
Raoul Dufy
Born in 1877, the French painte...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Ahasuerus Sends Vasthi Away - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Reverie of Don Quichotte - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Don Quixote Reading - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 197 copies.
SIZE : 41 x ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Pushkin's Queen of Spades
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades
Dimensions: 325 x 247 mm.
1946
Original lithograph of Antoni Clavé
Edition: 300
The Queen of Spades. Tr...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Goût de Bonheur: one plate (Portrait)
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Artist: Pablo Picasso (after)
Medium: lithograph, Arches paper
Portfolio: Le Goût de Bonheur
Year: 1970
Edition: Total of 1998 copies (666 each in G...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Living Painting - Colour Pochoir
By (after) Sonia Delaunay
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Full-page, colour pochoir after a costume design by Sonia Delaunay
Edition 331/500 copies on Velin Aussedat
Dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.
From 27 Living Paintings. [Milano, Edizioni del Naviglio, 1969]. Jacques Damase. Robes Poèmes, Introduction. Text by Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Domergue - Almost Dressed - Original Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Almost Dressed
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Par...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Léonard Foujita - Eve With an Apple - Original Lithograph
By Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Léonard Foujita
Eve With an Apple
Original Lithograph
Signed in the plate
50 x 38 cm
Reference: Sylvie Buisson #60.29
Léonard Foujita (French/Japanese, 1886–1968)
The Three Grace...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - Dark Hair Lady with a Scarf - Original Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Dark Hair Lady with a Scarf
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous por...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Ruth Gleaning - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bengt Lindstrom - Original Handsigned Engraving
By Bengt Lindström
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Bengt Lindström - Original Handsigned Engraving
The Seven Deadly Sins.
76 x 56 cm
Signed in pencil by Bengt Lindström
Paris, ABCD, 1976.
Original etching in color
Limited edition 90 ex.
This is the unique copy offered to Claude Manesse,
The story of B. Lindström was collected by Frederick Towarnicki, assisted by Agathe Malet-Buisson. The engravings were drawn on the presses of Claude Manesse.
Bengt Lindström (1925-2008)
Bengt Lindström was born on September 3rd, 1925 in Storsjökapell, a small isolated village in the Swedish province of Norrland. The young child thus grew up in that vast, mythical and harsh expanse of mounts, glistening lakes and endless forests known as Lapland. His father was a primary school teacher who was fond of Lapps and who showed great interest in their ethnic group and culture. The child was only three days old when Lapp King Kroik, his godfather, administered the Baptism of the Earth, where the child is conveyed between two roots of a tree to grant him protection from the Gods. Lapps as well as local lumberjacks would occasionally abandon their silent ways to tell him and reveal the tales, legends and mysteries of the Great White North.
1935-1945 : He left Storsjökapell and headed to Härnösand, where he wrote short science-fiction novellas, became a renowned athlete and began to paint.
1944-1946 : Isaac Grünewald Art School in Stockholm, Sweden. Study drawing with Aksel Jörgensen at the Copenhagen Fine Arts School in Denmark. He realized his first two lithographs, Meditation and Le Modèle Etendu (The Stretched Model).
1947-1952 : He arrived in Paris. He travelled to Italy, where he visited Florence and Assisi, developing a deep fascination for Giotto and Cimabue. He was granted a scholarship by Swedish magazine Aftontidningen, which helped him move into a workshop in Arcueil, France. He began working on mosaics.
1953-1967 : He returned to Paris, once again taking up lithography and engraving, which holds a vital position in his work. He moved into a workshop in Rueil-Malmaison. This was the start of his collaboration with the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris. London Tooth & Sons Gallery Director M. Cochrane purchased a large number of his works. He left the workshop in Rueil-Malmaison to settle in Savigny-sur-Orge, France. He began taking to figurative art with Masks, Gods and Monsters. He exhibited with the Nouvelle Figuration Group at the Mathias Feld Gallery. He also began working with the Ariel Gallery in Paris.
1968-1978 : Lindström completed a series of 10 lithographs about Scandinavian mythology. He also completed a series of drypoint works. An association with the Protée Gallery in Toulouse, France, led to exhibitions at the Protée Gallery II in Paris starting in 1984. He executed a large mural painting the Grand Hotel in Härnösand, Sweden. He also made two large frescoes for the Nacksta-Sundsvall covered market in Sweden. He took to sharing his working time between the workshop in Savigny-sur-Orge and the one in Sundsvall. He began collaboration that was to last several years with the ABCD Gallery in Paris, which provided exclusive publication for his engravings and strong ink work. Les Hommes du Nord (Men of the North) was the first of the major tapestries. He published a boxed set album, Eddan, Eddan, Eddan, illustrating Scandinavian mythology. Together with Jacques Putman, he completed two editions of bronze sculptures, Les Enfants Sauvages (The Wild Children).
1979-1982 : He worked on glass, making thirty dishes and goblets for renowned Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda. He painted a car for Volvo, Sweden’s leading car manufacturer. Then, close to his birthplace, he painted gigantic tarpaulins over forty metres high, covering the slopes of the neighbouring Våladalen Mountain, as a protest against the building of a dam. This action caused a sensation and provoked fierce reactions. He also created small painted papier mâché sculptures, Têtes (Heads), as well as some gold and silver jewellery.
1983 : He exhibited seven monumental 3x2.5m works at the Art and History Museum in Stockholm: Les Grands Dieux Ase (The Great Aesir Gods), depicting the gods from Scandinavian mythology: Thor, Odin, Frej, Balder, Ymer, Loki and Unknown God, as well as acrylic paintings about the Valkyries. Les Grands Dieux was ultimately exhibited in a purpose-built chapel adjoining the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in 1996. He completed Thor’s Hammer, a monumental sculpture.
1985-1990 : He lived also in the Alicante region, where Spanish friends found him a new workshop. While there he completed Novelda, an album of lithographs featuring poems by Spanish poet Paco Pastor. He completed a new mural, 5mx5m, for the Västeras Science Institute in Sweden. He then started working with the San Carlo Gallery in Milan, Italy, which coordinated all of the Italian events. Major exhibitions and retrospectives were held in Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Spain. He created two boxed set albums, containing series of 10 aquatints, Monde Autre et Chamanes (Otherworld and Shamans), featuring poems by Michel Perrin.
1991-1994 : He went back to working in black and white, completing some very-large-format works. In Murano, in association with the San Carlo Gallery, he created Grands Verres (Large Glasses), a series of large vases and sculptures made of crystal. He painted Kåtan Mimi, an 8x9m Lapp tent, for the town of Arjeplog in Swedish Lapland. He completed a couple of 2m-high painted polyester sculptures, Lui et Elle (Him and Her). He then made a new series of crystal glasses and sculptures in Murano, Italy. He completed Présence (Presence), a new 3.5x2.7m tapestry for the municipality of Timrå, Sweden. He started on the Grands Initiés (Great Insiders) series, all large format and mixed black and white techniques. He finished the strong series about Norse gods.
1995-1996 : He moved into a new workshop in Paris. A retrospective was held at the Sundsvall Museum in Sweden, and on that occasion he painted a monumental 700-m² canvass, Le Géant sur la montagne (The Giant on the Mountain), which was hung all summer long on the mountain slope facing the town. He went on to complete a suite of six silkscreen prints on the same theme. Then he inaugurated the Y, a monumental sculpture. Lindström then completed Temps Zéro (Zero Time), a watch made for Swatch. One of his works, L’hiver (Winter), made the cover of the first 1996 issue of Telerama, the leading French weekly. In association with Sydkraft Sweden, he painted a fresco for the municipality of Örebro on a 17m-high tank with a surface area of 3,000 m², located at the crossroads of major Swedish motorways, by the entrance to the Åbyverket industrial estate. He also created a 6.5m-high Tången sculpture made of painted concrete in Ånge, which was inaugurated on September 3rd in the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden.
1997-1999 : He began working on ceramics in Albisolla, Italy. He also completed a new 30m-high fresco for the town of Örebro, located close to the tank he had painted in 1996 near Åbyverket. The year saw the inauguration of the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in Sweden, which harbours the collection of the Bengt and Michèle Lindström Foundation, featuring the entire engravings collection (about 800 works), as well as a selection of paintings and sculptures. He completed a 4x10m mural in the lobby of the University of Eskilstuna, Sweden, and also completed two monumental frescoes on the Akkats dam and a mural on the power station facing Jokkmokk in Swedish Lapland.
2000-2003 : He painted all of the sides of a semi-articulated lorry for Scania, Sweden’s main truck manufacturer. In Italy, he completed a new series of crystal sculptures with Adriano Bérengo. He finished the Great Prophets, a series of 2x2m oil on canvass works. Swiss publisher Ides et Calendes published a small but luxurious monograph, with text by Françoise Monnin. A notebook was also published, Le Visage dans l’Art de Bengt Lindström (Faces in the Art of Bengt Lindström). He completed a substantial series of large blue acrylic paintings, Femmes (Women).
2003 : Bengt fell ill and was unable to paint, but the exhibitions went on.
2004 : Saw the release of the film by Dag Jonzon and Hans Östbom, produced by Dell’arte AB and Östbom Filmbild, about the life of Bengt Lindström. Entitled Lindström - Le Diable de la couleur et de la forme (Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil), the film was produced thanks to support from Film Västernorrland, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland and Sveriges Television. It was broadcast on Swedish television channels. That same year, the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre was closed as a result of municipal policy.
2005-2007 : The 6m-high sculpture Le Loup (The Wolf), made for PEAB, was inaugurated in Botkyrka-Stockholm. Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil was screened at the Paris Swedish Cultural Centre and released on DVD. The Michèle and Bengt Lindström Foundation was donated and transferred to the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden, where a special room was prepared to host Les Grands Dieux Ase. Edition of the 1998 Ceramics, created in association with Francis Dellile’s ”La Tuilerie” workshop. The Bengt Lindström Collection was inaugurated at, Murberget, the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden. He illustrated Sinfonietta för Juliana, a collection of poems by Italian poet and art critic Sebastiano Grasso. On January 29th, 2008, Bengt Lindström passed away at his home in Sweden.
2008-2012 : The Fondation Krimaro presents the first volume of the works of Bengt Lindström in his collection. Numerous exhibitions-tribute to the work are presented in major cities in Europe.
2012 : Retrospective - Black and White in the engravings - Museum of Härnösand, Murberget, Sweden.
Main exhibitions
1952 Fair Réalités Nouvelles – New realities, Paris, France.
1953 Craven Gallery, Paris, France.
1954 Gummeson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Fair Salon d’Octobre, Paris, France.
1958 Breteau Gallery, Paris, France.
1959 Autour du Spontanéisme – Around the sontaneity, Stockholm, Sweden. L’Europe Nouvelle – The new Europe, LaUnited Statesnne, Switzerland.
1960 Rive Gauche Gallery, Paris, France.
1961 Tooth Gallery, London, England. Le Zodiaque Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Fair Salon de Mai, Paris, France.
1962 Nouvelle Figuration – New Figuration , Mathias Fels Gallery, Paris, France,
1964 Nord-Sud – North-South, in several cities in Sweden. Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, 15 artists of my generation. Museum of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium, Figuration-Défiguration – Figuration – Disfigurement.
1965 Rive Gauche Gallery. Paris, France. Nord Gallery, Lille, France. Birch Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966 Museum of Modern Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
1967 Veranneman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, United States. Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 23 peintres in Paris.
1968 Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, followed by six exhibitions until 1976.
1969 La Pochade Gallery, Paris, France. Protée Gallery, Toulouse, France, who exhibited him in Paris, Gallery Protée II, from 1984.
1973 Galliera Museum, Paris, France.
1974 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal.
1982 Gallery Protée-Arco, Madrid, Spain and Fair Foire de Cologne, Germany.
1983 Historia Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, The Ase gods and the Valkyries.
1984 Gallery Arcano XXI, Lisbon, Portugal. Gallery Christian Cheneau, Paris, France. Museum Château comtal, Carcassonne, France.
1985 Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain.
1986 Gallery Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain. Gallery Juan Mordo-Arco, Madrid, Spain. Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain. Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Gallery Three Continents, New-York, United States. Gallery Protée, Toulouse France, Autour du Roi Lear – Around King Lear.
1987 Gallery Kostel, Paris, France. Gallery Zwirner, Cologne, Germany. Gallery Leu, Rottach-Egern, Germany.
1988 Maison du Lot, Figeac, France. Gallery Protée, Paris, France. Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France
1989 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France, La terre des ancêtres - The Land pf the ancestors. Gallery Protée, Paris, France, Nomads. Gallery Raab, London, England.
1990 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France. Centre Culturel de Brest, France.
1991 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France.
1992 Archotèque, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France. Museum of Vesoul, Vesoul, France. Gallery San Carlo, Milan, Italy.
1993 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal. Tonnellerie du Cognac Monnet...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Moreau - Paris, At The Cinema - Original Etching
By Luc-Albert Moreau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Moreau - Paris, At The Cinema - Original Etching
Dimensions : 13 x 10".
Paper : Rives vellum.
Edition : 225 copies.
1927
From Tableaux de Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, Paris
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Europe's Faces - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Europe's Faces
printed signature
Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky
1961
Jean Cocteau
Writer, artist and film director Jea...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - The Dancer - Original Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: The Dancer
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisie...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Raoul Dufy (after) - Landscape - Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Dimensions: ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Pushkin's Queen of Spades
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades
Dimensions: 325 x 247 mm.
1946
Original lithograph of Antoni Clavé
Editio...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition - Lithograph
By (after) Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Di...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - Parisienne - Original Signed Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Parisienne
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisie...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Provence Village - Lithograph
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Provence Village
lithograph in colors after a painting by the artist
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
from the edition of 250 as issued in Warnod, Andre...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Magical - Lithograph
By Constantin Terechkovitch
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Constantin (Kostia) Terechkovitch
Title: Magical
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
from the edition of 250 as issued in Warnod, Andre, "Les Peintres mes amis&qu...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers - Lithograph
By (after) Maurice de Vlaminck
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Maurice de Vlaminck
Title: Flowers
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
from the edition of 250 as issued in Warnod, Andre, "Les Peintres mes amis" (Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1965)
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876 - 1958)
Maurice was three years old when his family moved from Paris to Vésinet. He first pursued the same musical career as his parents, who were both musicians, leaving his home as a trained double-bass player in 1892 to move to Chatou near Versailles. After absolving his military service in Vitré Maurice Vlaminck worked as a musician until he accidentally met André Derain in 1900.
It was Derain who kindled Vlaminck's artistic ambitions. He decided to become a painter and rented an old hut in which he and Derain shared a studio. A crucial turning point in Vlaminck's artistic development was a visit to a van Gogh exhibition...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Moulin de la Galette - Lithograph
By Kees van Dongen
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Moulin de la Galette
Signed in the plate
Edition of 250
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
References: Juffermans JB23
Information : Lithograph published in 1965 for the portfolio " ...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - The Dancer - Original Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: The Dancer
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisie...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Bird - Lithograph
By (after) Georges Braque
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: The Bird
Printed signature
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
from the edition of 250 as issued in Warnod, Andre, "Les Peintres mes amis" (Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1965)
The father of ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Province - Lithograph
By André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Dunoyer de Segonzac
Title: Province
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
from the edition of 250 as issued in Warnod, Andre, "Les Peintres mes amis" (Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1965)
André DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC (1884 - 1974)
André Dunoyer de Segonzac naît le 7...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femininity - Lithograph
By Jules Pascin
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Jules Pascin
Title: Femininity
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
from the edition of 250 as issued in Warnod, Andre, "Les Peintres mes amis" (Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1965)
Jules Pascin, born Julius Mordechai Pincas, was a Bulgarian Jewish painter sometimes referred to as "the Prince of Montparnasse."
He was born on March 31, 1885 in Vidin, Bulgaria to a Spanish-Sephardic Jewish father and a Serbian-Italian mother, the eighth of eleven children. The Pincas family moved to Bucharest, Romania in 1892 and Pascin was raised there until he left for boarding school in Vienna in 1896.
While briefly working for his father’s grain merchant firm in Bucharest at fifteen, Pascin spent much of his time completing his earliest drawings in the local bordello, where he was residing under the Madame’s protection. In 1902, at the age of seventeen, Pascin moved to Vienna to study painting. The next year, he studied at the Heymann Art School in Munich. There, he supported himself by selling satirical drawings to Simplicissimus and other German magazines. Pascin would contribute drawings to a Munich daily through 1929.
Pascin’s contributions were widely recognized for their wit and insight, and upon his arrival in Paris in 1905 he was welcomed at the Gare Montparnasse by an international group of artists and writers who gathered at the Café du Dôme, which Pascin soon began to frequent regularly. The group included Grossman, Grosz, William Howard, Levy, and Emil Orlik. Pascin was also a close friend of Amadeo Modigliani.
Upon his arrival in Paris, Julius Mordechai Pincas changed his name to Jules Pascin and soon became the symbol of the Montparnasse artist community. Always in his bowler hat, he was a witty presence at Le Dôme café, Le Jockey club, and the others haunts of the area’s bohemian society, and was known for hosting legendary all-night parties. In his story, A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway wrote a chapter titled With Pascin At the Dôme, recounting a night in 1923 when he had stopped off at Le Dôme and met Pascin escorted by two models. Hemingway's depiction of the events of that night is considered one of the defining images of Montparnasse at the time.
In 1907, Pascin had his first solo exhibition at Paul Cassirer Gallery in Berlin. Three years later, Cassirir commissioned Pascin to illustrate Heinrich Heine's Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski. In 1911, Pascin exhibited his work at Berlin Secession and a year later at the Sonderbund-Aussstellung in Cologne. The artist’s first exhibition in the United States was at the Armory Show in New York, where he exhibited twelve of his works.
Upon the outbreak of World War I, Pascin left Paris for London in order to avoid conscription in the Bulgarian Army. In October 1914, he immigrated to New York, where he stayed through 1920 and would later return again in 1927. Pascin was immediately welcomed into an artists circle based around the Penguin Club and became acquainted with John Quinn, an important art collector. A short time after his arrival in New York, Pascin was given a one-man show by the Berlin Photographic Company, a Madison Avenue gallery. While in New York, Pascin became associated with several progressive painters, including Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber. Many of these painters were influenced by Pascin’s unique style, in which he combined elements from Expressionism and Cubism with his own personal view of his environment.
Pascin used his time in the United States to travel extensively, especially in the southern states and the Caribbean islands, recording his travels in sketches that were widely acclaimed. Pascin married Hermine David in 1918. In 1920, Pascin was awarded American citizenship with support from Alfred Stieglitz and Maurice Sterne. He returned to Paris in October of that same year and met his future mistress, Lucy Krohg, the wife of the Norwegian painter Per Krohg...
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Jean Monnet's Vision - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Jean Monnet's Vision
Signed in the stone/printed signature
Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edit...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder - Original Lithograph - Behind the Mirror
By Alexander Calder
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Alexander Calder - Original Lithograph - Behind the Mirror
1 Original lithograph created in 1976
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Source: Derrière le miroir (DLM), n°221, 1976
Alexander Cald...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder - Original Lithograph - Behind the Mirror
By Alexander Calder
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Alexander Calder - Original Lithograph - Behind the Mirror
1 Original lithograph created in 1976
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Source: Derrière le miroir (...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Autoportrait - Lithograph
By (after) Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Di...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Concert - Lithograph
By (after) Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Di...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life - Lithograph
By (after) Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Di...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Rahab and the Spies of Jericho - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Jansem - Original Etching
By Jean Jansem
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Jansem - Original Etching
Title: Loneliness
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition of 175
Paper: vélin de Rives
1974
Jean Jansem was born in 1920 at Seuleuze in Asia Minor and spent h...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Pushkin's Queen of Spades
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades
Dimensions: 325 x 247 mm.
1946
Original lithograph of Antoni Clavé
Edition: 300
The Queen of Spades. Tr...
Category
1940s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Homage to Renoir - Lithograph
By (after) Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Dimensions: ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jacques Villon (after) - Homage to Dufy - Lithograph
By Jacques Villon
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Jacques Villon
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marcel Gromaire (after) - Homage to Dufy - Lithograph
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Marcel Gromaire
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signatur...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Charles Lapicque (after) - Homage to Dufy - Lithograph
By Charles Lapicque
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Charles Lapicque
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signatu...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Raoul Dufy (after) - Lithograph
By (after) Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Di...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfons Mucha - Original Lithograph - Christmas Baby Party
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Decorative Documents
Author: Alfons Mucha.
Publisher: Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 13 Rue Lafayette. Emile Levy publisher. Published ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Marchand (after) - Homage to Dufy - Lithograph
By André Marchand
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) André Marchand
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique P...
Category
1940s Fauvist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Title Page - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
This ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Juliet Waiting for Romeo - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
From "Théâtre" Portfolio, 1957
Edition: 207 / 8800
Dimensions: 22.5 x 15.5 cm
Jean Cocteau
Writer, artist and film director Jean Cocteau was on...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Pushkin's Queen of Spades
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades
Dimensions: 325 x 247 mm.
1946
Original lithograph of Antoni Clavé
Edition: 300
The Queen of Spades. Tr...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
A stone lithograph on Vélin de Rives paper after a drawing by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "La Comedie Humaine", 1954, unsigned as issued. From "Verve", no. 29-30,...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensions: 32...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Jansem - Original Etching
By Jean Jansem
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Jansem - Original Etching
Title: Loneliness
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition of 175
Paper: vélin de Rives
1974
Jean Jansem was born in 1920 at Seuleuze in Asia Minor and spent h...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bengt Lindstrom - Original Handsigned Engraving
By Bengt Lindström
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Bengt Lindström - Original Handsigned Engraving
The Seven Deadly Sins.
76 x 56 cm
Signed in pencil by Bengt Lindström
Paris, ABCD, 1976.
Original etching in color
Limited edition 90 ex.
This is the unique copy offered to Claude Manesse,
The story of B. Lindström was collected by Frederick Towarnicki, assisted by Agathe Malet-Buisson. The engravings were drawn on the presses of Claude Manesse.
Bengt Lindström (1925-2008)
Bengt Lindström was born on September 3rd, 1925 in Storsjökapell, a small isolated village in the Swedish province of Norrland. The young child thus grew up in that vast, mythical and harsh expanse of mounts, glistening lakes and endless forests known as Lapland. His father was a primary school teacher who was fond of Lapps and who showed great interest in their ethnic group and culture. The child was only three days old when Lapp King Kroik, his godfather, administered the Baptism of the Earth, where the child is conveyed between two roots of a tree to grant him protection from the Gods. Lapps as well as local lumberjacks would occasionally abandon their silent ways to tell him and reveal the tales, legends and mysteries of the Great White North.
1935-1945 : He left Storsjökapell and headed to Härnösand, where he wrote short science-fiction novellas, became a renowned athlete and began to paint.
1944-1946 : Isaac Grünewald Art School in Stockholm, Sweden. Study drawing with Aksel Jörgensen at the Copenhagen Fine Arts School in Denmark. He realized his first two lithographs, Meditation and Le Modèle Etendu (The Stretched Model).
1947-1952 : He arrived in Paris. He travelled to Italy, where he visited Florence and Assisi, developing a deep fascination for Giotto and Cimabue. He was granted a scholarship by Swedish magazine Aftontidningen, which helped him move into a workshop in Arcueil, France. He began working on mosaics.
1953-1967 : He returned to Paris, once again taking up lithography and engraving, which holds a vital position in his work. He moved into a workshop in Rueil-Malmaison. This was the start of his collaboration with the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris. London Tooth & Sons Gallery Director M. Cochrane purchased a large number of his works. He left the workshop in Rueil-Malmaison to settle in Savigny-sur-Orge, France. He began taking to figurative art with Masks, Gods and Monsters. He exhibited with the Nouvelle Figuration Group at the Mathias Feld Gallery. He also began working with the Ariel Gallery in Paris.
1968-1978 : Lindström completed a series of 10 lithographs about Scandinavian mythology. He also completed a series of drypoint works. An association with the Protée Gallery in Toulouse, France, led to exhibitions at the Protée Gallery II in Paris starting in 1984. He executed a large mural painting the Grand Hotel in Härnösand, Sweden. He also made two large frescoes for the Nacksta-Sundsvall covered market in Sweden. He took to sharing his working time between the workshop in Savigny-sur-Orge and the one in Sundsvall. He began collaboration that was to last several years with the ABCD Gallery in Paris, which provided exclusive publication for his engravings and strong ink work. Les Hommes du Nord (Men of the North) was the first of the major tapestries. He published a boxed set album, Eddan, Eddan, Eddan, illustrating Scandinavian mythology. Together with Jacques Putman, he completed two editions of bronze sculptures, Les Enfants Sauvages (The Wild Children).
1979-1982 : He worked on glass, making thirty dishes and goblets for renowned Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda. He painted a car for Volvo, Sweden’s leading car manufacturer. Then, close to his birthplace, he painted gigantic tarpaulins over forty metres high, covering the slopes of the neighbouring Våladalen Mountain, as a protest against the building of a dam. This action caused a sensation and provoked fierce reactions. He also created small painted papier mâché sculptures, Têtes (Heads), as well as some gold and silver jewellery.
1983 : He exhibited seven monumental 3x2.5m works at the Art and History Museum in Stockholm: Les Grands Dieux Ase (The Great Aesir Gods), depicting the gods from Scandinavian mythology: Thor, Odin, Frej, Balder, Ymer, Loki and Unknown God, as well as acrylic paintings about the Valkyries. Les Grands Dieux was ultimately exhibited in a purpose-built chapel adjoining the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in 1996. He completed Thor’s Hammer, a monumental sculpture.
1985-1990 : He lived also in the Alicante region, where Spanish friends found him a new workshop. While there he completed Novelda, an album of lithographs featuring poems by Spanish poet Paco Pastor. He completed a new mural, 5mx5m, for the Västeras Science Institute in Sweden. He then started working with the San Carlo Gallery in Milan, Italy, which coordinated all of the Italian events. Major exhibitions and retrospectives were held in Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Spain. He created two boxed set albums, containing series of 10 aquatints, Monde Autre et Chamanes (Otherworld and Shamans), featuring poems by Michel Perrin.
1991-1994 : He went back to working in black and white, completing some very-large-format works. In Murano, in association with the San Carlo Gallery, he created Grands Verres (Large Glasses), a series of large vases and sculptures made of crystal. He painted Kåtan Mimi, an 8x9m Lapp tent, for the town of Arjeplog in Swedish Lapland. He completed a couple of 2m-high painted polyester sculptures, Lui et Elle (Him and Her). He then made a new series of crystal glasses and sculptures in Murano, Italy. He completed Présence (Presence), a new 3.5x2.7m tapestry for the municipality of Timrå, Sweden. He started on the Grands Initiés (Great Insiders) series, all large format and mixed black and white techniques. He finished the strong series about Norse gods.
1995-1996 : He moved into a new workshop in Paris. A retrospective was held at the Sundsvall Museum in Sweden, and on that occasion he painted a monumental 700-m² canvass, Le Géant sur la montagne (The Giant on the Mountain), which was hung all summer long on the mountain slope facing the town. He went on to complete a suite of six silkscreen prints on the same theme. Then he inaugurated the Y, a monumental sculpture. Lindström then completed Temps Zéro (Zero Time), a watch made for Swatch. One of his works, L’hiver (Winter), made the cover of the first 1996 issue of Telerama, the leading French weekly. In association with Sydkraft Sweden, he painted a fresco for the municipality of Örebro on a 17m-high tank with a surface area of 3,000 m², located at the crossroads of major Swedish motorways, by the entrance to the Åbyverket industrial estate. He also created a 6.5m-high Tången sculpture made of painted concrete in Ånge, which was inaugurated on September 3rd in the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden.
1997-1999 : He began working on ceramics in Albisolla, Italy. He also completed a new 30m-high fresco for the town of Örebro, located close to the tank he had painted in 1996 near Åbyverket. The year saw the inauguration of the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in Sweden, which harbours the collection of the Bengt and Michèle Lindström Foundation, featuring the entire engravings collection (about 800 works), as well as a selection of paintings and sculptures. He completed a 4x10m mural in the lobby of the University of Eskilstuna, Sweden, and also completed two monumental frescoes on the Akkats dam and a mural on the power station facing Jokkmokk in Swedish Lapland.
2000-2003 : He painted all of the sides of a semi-articulated lorry for Scania, Sweden’s main truck manufacturer. In Italy, he completed a new series of crystal sculptures with Adriano Bérengo. He finished the Great Prophets, a series of 2x2m oil on canvass works. Swiss publisher Ides et Calendes published a small but luxurious monograph, with text by Françoise Monnin. A notebook was also published, Le Visage dans l’Art de Bengt Lindström (Faces in the Art of Bengt Lindström). He completed a substantial series of large blue acrylic paintings, Femmes (Women).
2003 : Bengt fell ill and was unable to paint, but the exhibitions went on.
2004 : Saw the release of the film by Dag Jonzon and Hans Östbom, produced by Dell’arte AB and Östbom Filmbild, about the life of Bengt Lindström. Entitled Lindström - Le Diable de la couleur et de la forme (Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil), the film was produced thanks to support from Film Västernorrland, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland and Sveriges Television. It was broadcast on Swedish television channels. That same year, the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre was closed as a result of municipal policy.
2005-2007 : The 6m-high sculpture Le Loup (The Wolf), made for PEAB, was inaugurated in Botkyrka-Stockholm. Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil was screened at the Paris Swedish Cultural Centre and released on DVD. The Michèle and Bengt Lindström Foundation was donated and transferred to the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden, where a special room was prepared to host Les Grands Dieux Ase. Edition of the 1998 Ceramics, created in association with Francis Dellile’s ”La Tuilerie” workshop. The Bengt Lindström Collection was inaugurated at, Murberget, the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden. He illustrated Sinfonietta för Juliana, a collection of poems by Italian poet and art critic Sebastiano Grasso. On January 29th, 2008, Bengt Lindström passed away at his home in Sweden.
2008-2012 : The Fondation Krimaro presents the first volume of the works of Bengt Lindström in his collection. Numerous exhibitions-tribute to the work are presented in major cities in Europe.
2012 : Retrospective - Black and White in the engravings - Museum of Härnösand, Murberget, Sweden.
Main exhibitions
1952 Fair Réalités Nouvelles – New realities, Paris, France.
1953 Craven Gallery, Paris, France.
1954 Gummeson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Fair Salon d’Octobre, Paris, France.
1958 Breteau Gallery, Paris, France.
1959 Autour du Spontanéisme – Around the sontaneity, Stockholm, Sweden. L’Europe Nouvelle – The new Europe, LaUnited Statesnne, Switzerland.
1960 Rive Gauche Gallery, Paris, France.
1961 Tooth Gallery, London, England. Le Zodiaque Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Fair Salon de Mai, Paris, France.
1962 Nouvelle Figuration – New Figuration , Mathias Fels Gallery, Paris, France,
1964 Nord-Sud – North-South, in several cities in Sweden. Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, 15 artists of my generation. Museum of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium, Figuration-Défiguration – Figuration – Disfigurement.
1965 Rive Gauche Gallery. Paris, France. Nord Gallery, Lille, France. Birch Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966 Museum of Modern Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
1967 Veranneman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, United States. Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 23 peintres in Paris.
1968 Ariel Gallery, Paris, France, followed by six exhibitions until 1976.
1969 La Pochade Gallery, Paris, France. Protée Gallery, Toulouse, France, who exhibited him in Paris, Gallery Protée II, from 1984.
1973 Galliera Museum, Paris, France.
1974 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal.
1982 Gallery Protée-Arco, Madrid, Spain and Fair Foire de Cologne, Germany.
1983 Historia Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, The Ase gods and the Valkyries.
1984 Gallery Arcano XXI, Lisbon, Portugal. Gallery Christian Cheneau, Paris, France. Museum Château comtal, Carcassonne, France.
1985 Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain.
1986 Gallery Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain. Gallery Juan Mordo-Arco, Madrid, Spain. Gallery Italia, Alicante, Spain. Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Gallery Three Continents, New-York, United States. Gallery Protée, Toulouse France, Autour du Roi Lear – Around King Lear.
1987 Gallery Kostel, Paris, France. Gallery Zwirner, Cologne, Germany. Gallery Leu, Rottach-Egern, Germany.
1988 Maison du Lot, Figeac, France. Gallery Protée, Paris, France. Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France
1989 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France, La terre des ancêtres - The Land pf the ancestors. Gallery Protée, Paris, France, Nomads. Gallery Raab, London, England.
1990 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France. Centre Culturel de Brest, France.
1991 Gallery Michèle Sadoun, Paris, France.
1992 Archotèque, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France. Museum of Vesoul, Vesoul, France. Gallery San Carlo, Milan, Italy.
1993 Gallery 111, Lisbon, Portugal. Tonnellerie du Cognac Monnet...
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Sheet: 75 x 56 cm
Handsigned
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By (after) Pablo Picasso
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after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Signed and dated in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints
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By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Signed and dated in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
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Category
1950s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)
Lithograph
Signed in the plate
Vélin Paper
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm (12 x 9")
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)
Lithograph
Signed in the plate
Vélin Paper
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm (12 x 9")
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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By (after) Marc Chagall
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1960s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
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Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
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Materials
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