Dick Bengtsson
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Untitled
Oil on panel 60.7 x 50 cm.
Provenance
The artist's family.
Literature
SAK, "Dick Bengtsson", 2005, cf. Untitled, oil on panel, executed in 1959, illustrated p. 29.
More information
In the late 1950s, Dick Bengtsson produced a series of abstract paintings on panel. Douglas Feuk describes these paintings in SAK's 2005 publication: "The surface quality and rigid symmetry rather give the image a hierarchical character. And in heraldic contexts, the motif is not primarily guided by formal but by content-based considerations. Every detail in colour and shape is there as a sign with a specific meaning. Indeed, there was much talk of 'signs' in the art world around 1960, and one finds them in various visual forms in the works of Fahlström, Österlin, Cobra artists, and many others."
In the artist's figurative painting from the mid-1960s an onwards, he often connects his representational motif with an abstract emblem, an inscription, or forms derived from non-figurative art. An example of this can be found in another work by Dick Bengtsson in this auction; the painting "Vinter i Bandhagen".