Bram van Velde Original Lithograph (1982)
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Bram van Velde Original Lithograph (1982). Starting in 1961, van Velde began to achieve a certain critical success. He was championed by a number of French-speaking writers, including Samuel Beckett and the poet André du Bouchet. In 1962, 1964 and 1968 van Velde had exhibitions in the United States organized by the Knoedler gallery. Bram van Velde Original Lithograph in color Published in 1982 by Gallery Maeght, Paris (from Derrière le Miroir no. 250) 38 x 55.5 cm. Very good condition. Feature: double sheet with centre-fold. Ship worldwide with tracking and insured shipping. // Bram (Abraham Gerardus) van Velde (1895–1981) was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction. He is often seen as member of the School of Paris but his work resides somewhere between expressionism and surrealism, and evolved in the 1960s into an expressive abstract art. His paintings from the 1950s are similar to the contemporary work of Matisse, Picasso and the abstract expressionist Adolph Gottlieb. He was championed by a number of French-speaking writers, including Samuel Beckett and the poet André du Bouchet. Starting in 1961, van Velde began to achieve a certain critical success. Jean-Michel Meurice made a documentary film about the artist. Younger expressive painters such as Pierre Alechinsky and the Danish Cobra-painter Asger Jorn admired Van Velde's art and his privat vue on art very strongly; they met him frequently and let their own art be influenced by his expressive art. In 1962, 1964 and 1968 van Velde had exhibitions in the United States organized by the Knoedler gallery. In 1962 he visited Willem de Kooning—also of Dutch origins—but the contact between the two artists is not very satisfying for either side. After 1970, van Velde travelled to visit his own expositions in Poland, Iceland, Italy and Norway, Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Rome. He did not make much new work during this period. In 1964, he was named "chevalier" of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Netherlands awarded him the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1969.
