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 Van Velde, Bram (1895 - 1981)
Netherlands

Composition, 1962

Oil on canvas;
130 x 162 cm
School of Paris

UID 102-583



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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