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Birgit Broms

(Sweden, 1924-2008)
Estimate
175 000 - 200 000 SEK
15 500 - 17 700 EUR
15 900 - 18 200 USD
Hammer price
150 000 SEK
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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Birgit Broms
(Sweden, 1924-2008)

"Skridskoåkare" (Ice skaters)

Signed BB. Executed in 2007. Mixed media and collage on canvas 103 x 110 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm.

More information

Birgit Broms inriktade sig alltmer på att skapa collage mot slutet av sin konstnärliga karriär. Men collagets betydelse har förändrats sedan de tidiga modernisterna, som ville dra in det moderna livets brutalitet på duken. Birgit Broms collage med rispapper, tejp och håriga förpackningsmaterial känns aldrig brutala utan estetiska och de har en bestämd funktion. De symboliserar luft, mellanrum, fart och riktning vilket speglar den atletiska fysiken i skridskoåkaren på ett skarpt sätt. Broms arbetsmetod var tidskrävande då hon gjorde en rad skisser och collage innan själva måleriet började. Birgit Broms fascinerades av skridskoåkarens rörelse och kraft och hon menade att det var en utmaning för henne som konstnär att förmedla denna rörelse.
Inflytandet från Göteborgskoloristen och maken Ragnar Sandberg går inte att bortse från men Birgit Broms utvecklade sin egen stil. Friheten och rörelsen var ett återkommande uttryck i hennes måleri, då hennes motivkrets utgjordes av skridskoåkare, skärgårdsbåtar, husfasader eller porträtt.
Collaget ”Skridskoåkarna” ingick i Birgit Broms sista utställning 2007.

Designer

Birgit Broms was a Swedish artist who was born in 1924 and died 2008. Rhythm is imbedded into her artistry when she captures the motion of her speedy skiers. This scene is depicted so often that it has become synonymous with the artist herself. Her artistic output was modest, focusing consistently on a few themes: cityscapes, facades, archipelago boats, and ice skaters. She portrayed these subjects not merely to capture their likeness, but rather to solve formal and coloristic challenges. Simplification and abstraction were key elements in her approach, always emphasizing the role of light in highlighting her motifs. One cannot speak about Broms’ career without mentioning her portraits, a genre she did not begin until the end of the 1970s. Broms did not receive commissions, rather it was she herself that asked to paint a person if she found their face fascinating. The first person she asked was Erland Josephson, after which she received commissions from both the portrait collection at Manilla and the National Portrait Geller in Gripsholm. Birgit Broms was married to the artist Ragnar Sandberg between 1960 and 1972.

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