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Olle Bonniér(Sweden, 1925-2016)
"Expansion"
Hammer price
165 000SEK
Estimate
175 000 - 200 000 SEK

"Expansion"

Signed O Bonniér and dated -56. Oil and sand on canvas 100.5 x 86 cm.

Provenance

Stockholms Auktionsverk, Moderna kvalitén, 4 November 2004, cat no 723.

Exhibitions

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, 1957, catalogue 277, cat. no 20.

Literature

Thomas Millroth, "Olle Bonniér", Stockholm, 1995, illustrated in colour p. 113.

More information

Olle Bonniér var väl förtrogen med den internationella konkretismen, men han bröt snabbt med dess begränsningar. I hans verk finns en schamanistisk, ja, magisk, kvalitet; men också tankar om att verket inte enbart är vad som syns inom bildytan. Det kan associera till ljud, ljus, och framför allt sträcka sig långt utanför sina gränser. "Expansion" utgör ett dramatiskt möte mellan starka färger som kolliderar och ger en nästan explosiv komposition. Oljefärg i rubinrött, marinblått, koboltblått, svart och vitt är blandad med sand som ger duken en aldrig avtagande och speciell yta och lyster. Färgerna är laddade med positiv och negativ energi som ger upphov till en dynamik där formerna sätts i rörelse och konturerna griper tag i varandra och stoppar rörelsen för en kort stund, resultatet blir en dokumentation av ett ständigt pågående skeende.

More about Olle Bonniér

Olle Bonniér was born in 1925 in Los Angeles. He studied at the Technical School under Issac Grünewald and made several study trips to Europe. Bonniér preferred non-figurative expressions and was interested in the dynamic between colour and form. He had his grand breakthrough with his exhibition “Ung Konst” at Färg and Form, where a group of young radicals came together to form the intellectual association known as “Men of 1947”. This name was somewhat misleading as it excluded the female artist is the group Randi Fisher. Other participants included Lennart Rodhe, Karl-Axel Pehrson, Pierre Olofsson, Olle Gill, Lage Lindell, Armand Rossander och Uno Vallman samt skulptörerna Liss Eriksson and Knut Erik Lindberg. Of the artists which focused upon pure concretism, Bonniér was one of them. In the beginning his painting style consisted of vivid colours, which later turned into more contrasting colours, often black and white. During the 1950s Bonniér edhered to a more poetic painting style. Bonniér is undoubtedly one of Swedens most important representatives of concretism.

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