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| Bram Bogart, La ferme, 1978 |
I had never
heard of Bram Bogart (1921-2012) until a few years ago, and although the Tate appears
to have four works I have managed, somehow, to miss seeing them.
My first direct encounter was happening by chance upon an exhibition in the Vigo Gallery in 2017 – and
I was blown away by his muscular, thickly-textured, three dimensional abstract paintings
and, in particular, his ‘gestural monochromes’. Now his estate is being
represented by White Cube and they are showing his work at Mason’s Yard until 7
March.
The
exhibition features paintings produced between 1959 and the
mid-1990s [but] the focus of the exhibition is the 1960s and 1970s… In these
paintings colour is both subject and object, their heavy masses of paint
swiped, dabbed, pushed or drawn across the canvas surface… Read the full gallery
text
here.
Read an
obituary, written by Michael McNay, in
The Guardian.
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Bram
Bogart, Printemps Néerderlandais, 1959
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| Bram Bogart, Cristal Baroque, 1959 |
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| Bram Bogart, Donker en grijs, 1962 |
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| Bram Bogart, Windzand, 1963 |
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| Bram Bogart, Wit door zwart, 1971 |
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| Bram Bogart, Blanc de Brabant, 1977 |
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| Bram Bogart, Ardoise, 1981 |
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| Bram Bogart, Bince, 1984 |
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| Bram Bogart |
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