Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
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Signed GAN. Executed in 1930. Water colour and gouache 27 x 17,5 cm.
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Med början år 1930 utför GAN en serie strikt plangeometriska målningar och reliefer som står den holländska neoplasticismen nära. Nils Lindgren skriver: ”I Paris leddes […] GAN under samvaron med Léger in på den motivistiska kubismen. Sysslandet med ’Den gudomliga geometrien’ förde honom vid sidan därav än en gång fram till rent abstrakta formexperiment. […] Under de första åren i Paris tillkom en rad tavlor, som närmast ger uttryck åt plangeometriska värden. (Nils Lindgren, ”Gösta Adrian-Nilsson”, 1949).
Auktionens verk är ett gott exempel på modernistpionjären GAN:s formala experiment för att finna nya uttryckssätt för sin konst.
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Gösta Adrian-Nilsson is most notable as a visual artist, and he is a pioneer of Swedish modernism. He studied at the Tekniske Selskabs Skole in Copenhagen and later for Johan Rohde at Zahrtmann’s school in Copenhagen. As an avant-gardist, Nilsson was constantly searching for new influences. In Berlin, he was influenced by the circle around the radical magazine Der Sturm, through Kandinsky and och Franz Marc. In Paris through Fernand Legér and the artists in his circle. GAN was an eclectic in the positive sense of the word. He took the the artist styles of the 1900s and created new impressions. Symbolism, cubism, futurism, expressionism, constructivim and Theosophy were the colours occupying his internal pallet. He had a sharp eye for the masculine and his painting was often energized by the vitality of modern technology, vibrant eroticism, and echoes of tyrants. No other Swedish modern artist exhibits such a unique style.
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