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Biography
Dutch painter born in Zoeterwoude, near Leyde, Holland. He lived in Paris from 1925 to 1965, when he moved to Geneve, and in Maiorca from 1932-36. He was close to Samuel Beckett, who wrote about his work. His paintings exhibit a remarkable consistency from the late 1940s until the end of his career. Though he developed his art without knowledge of American action painting, van Velde was the European artist closest to aspects of his fellow Hollander, Willem de Kooning, who showed his interest in Van Velde’s art when it was first shown in New York in 1948. He was a link between the Americans and the young painters of the CoBrA group. 1970- Retrospectives, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Kunsthalle Basel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; 1981 retrospective, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1994, retrospective Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leyde, Holland.
Exhibitions
Bram Van Velde Galerie Knoedler, France 01-12-1970 ~ 09-01-1971
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Contemporâneos de Arpad Szenes e Vieira da Silva na Collecção Berardo Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Portugal 06-03-2002 ~ 16-06-2002
Bibliography
Bram Van Velde, 1970 Published by Galerie Knoedler
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
Contemporâneos de Arpad Szenes e Vieira da Silva na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva ISBN 9728467192
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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