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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2010 | Pierre Berge & Associes | Paris | ART PREMIER ET MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN | 311 | $****** - ****** | Childish stroll |
Works on Paper
49 x 38 cm (19.29 x 14.96 in)
Paper mounted on panel
Signed lower right
Galerie G. Giroux, vente Walter Schwartzenberg, 1er et 2 février 1932 Exposition : Rétrospective Frits Van den Berghe, Musée d"Art moderne, Ostende, 16/10/1999- 13/02/2000
FRITS VAN DEN BERGHE (1883-1939)
Childish stroll, 1928 Paper mounted on panel Signed lower right H: 49 cm W: 38 cm Frits Van den Berghe, a complex personality of the Belgian artistic scene, has never stopped renewing his pictorial language. Refusing everything that is common and banal, he is in perpetual search for artistic identity. Marked by impressionism, expressionism and surrealism, he nevertheless attempts to break away from the dominant trends by turning to the world of the unconscious and metaphor. Therefore, each image inspired by the real world often seems to move away from it. From 1928, his work made a final radical change and displayed a certain proximity to the surrealist movement. Its full, smooth and intense shapes disappear to give way to blurred shapes and accidental lines relating to the irrational and phantasmagorical. At the same time, the treatment of the material is subject to the vagaries of improvisation. In Promenade puérile (1928), the presence of strange creatures indeed shows the artist"s passage towards a tortuous universe, where fantastic characters move. The colors, until then obeying the classic limitations of solid color, take flight by becoming the fruit of his intuition and his sensitivity. The use of the frottage technique, developed in 1925 by Max Ernst, a key figure in the surrealist movement, also contributes to the rendering of these imaginary figures.
