"Hyperkub"
Signed o.g.c, executed circa 1932. Ink and chalk, 19 x 12.5 cm.
Not examined out of frame.
Oscar Reutersvärd, Lund.
Galerie Bel' Art, Stockholm.
Privatsamling.
Liljevalchs konsthall and Norrköping Art Museum, "Otto G. Carlsund", 2007-2008, illustrated p. 82 in the exhibition catalogue.
Anders Wahlgren, "Otto G. Carlsund", Stockholm, 2021, p. 242.
Otto G Carlsund was a Swedish painter, theorist and critic. Whilst in Paris in 1924, he formed a friendship with Fernand Léger, Ozenfant and Piet Mondrian and became the representative of Swedish synthetic cubism, purism, and neoplasticism. It was between the years of 1932 – 45 when Carlsund was the most active as a critic, but rediscovered his passion for nonfigurative painting in his last years. His paintings were often intended as preliminary studies for wall paintings. In 1929, he co-founded the group Art Concret in Paris with van Doesburg and Hélion, publishing its manifesto.
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