BRAM BOGART
(Delft 1921-2012 Sint-Truiden)
Peur d"été 1959.
Oil on canvas on wood.
Signed and dated lower right: Bogart 59. Signed and titled on the verso of the wood panel: Bogart. Peur d"été.
94x124cm.
Bram Bogart, born in Delft in 1921, was close to Expressionism at the beginning of his artistic activity under the influence of Van Gogh and Constant Permeke. In 1951 he moved to Paris after residing in the south of France for 5 years and initially further developed his Tachist-expressionist style. When he moved to Brussels in 1960, he began to give his abstract, expressive painting an increasingly architectural character: Bogart used a trowel to apply thickened paint made from pigments and oil, pigments and water, varnish, siccative and white onto wooden panels covered with jute There is chalk, and when choosing colors he concentrated on the primary colors red, blue and yellow. The work offered here, created in 1959, anticipates this freedom in the artistic gesture with its overflowing color.