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Ola Billgren(Sweden, 1940-2001)
"Romantiskt landskap I"
Hammer price
26 000SEK
Estimate
15 000 - 20 000 SEK

"Romantiskt landskap I"

Signed Ola Billgren and dated -81. Collage on paper 30.5 x 37 cm.

Provenance

Åmells Konsthandel, Stockholm.
Private Collection, Sweden.

Exhibitions

Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, "Ola Billgren till minne", 12 - 27 January 2002.

More information

Between 1981 and 1983, Billgren created 19 romantic landscapes, lithographs, of which this is the original for the first lithograph. The Moderna Museet in Stockholm acquired the entire suite for its collection.

More about Ola Billgren

Ola Billgren was born in 1940 in Copenhagen but based his career in Sweden. Billgren was self-taught, having only been trained by his parents Hans and Grete Billgren. Ola worked within the mediums of graphic art, watercolour, collage, photography, film, and scenography. He was also an author and culture critic. Known for his versatility, Billgren cultivated a relationship between art and reality in his work.
During the 1960s, he transitioned from abstract expressionism to photographic realism. Over time, his paintings evolved into a fusion of abstract and photorealistic styles, resulting in romantic landscapes where he examined the interplay of light and color. Forms dissolved, and colors were reduced to monochrome, single-colored surfaces that were richly worked and varied.
In the late 1980s, he returned to urban environments in large cityscapes, often painted from a high perspective but maintaining the impressionistic approach seen in his landscapes. Ola Billgren's influence on recent decades of art has been significant. His work is represented in institutions such as Musée National d'art Moderne Centre George Pompidou in Paris and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

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