Bengt Lindström Abstract Prints

Untitled is an artwork realized by Bengt Lindstrom (1925 - 2008). Screen Print. Cm 78,00 x 57,00. 7/100. Hand signed and numbered. Good conditions Bengt Lindström was born in Storsjökappel, a small village in Norrland, Sweden, on 3 September 1925. A few days after his birth, his godfather, the leader of the local Lapps, administered the baptism of the earth to him, making him pass through the roots of a dead tree, to order to ensure the protection of the gods against the dangers of life. The child grows up in this immense, harsh and mysterious land covered with lakes and forests where the legends and myths of the Great North hover. At ten years old his parents sent him to school in Härnösand, where he undertook scientific studies and where he began to paint. In 1944 he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Stockholm and in 1945 he moved to the School of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, at Aksel Jørgensen. In 1946 he was in Chicago where he attended courses at the Art Institute for a year. In 1947 he arrived in Paris, near Fernanad Léger, then in Montparnasse, at the André Lothe Academy where he met Marie-Louise Boudriot whom he married in 1951. In 1949 he visited Florence and Assisi, remaining fascinated by the frescoes of Giotto and Cimabue. In 1950, a scholarship from a Swedish newspaper allowed him to open his first atelier in the Marne Valley. First group exhibition in 1953 at the Craven Gallery in Paris. First individual exhibition in 1954 at Gummesons Konstgalleri in Stockholm. From these years onwards he usually stays between France and Sweden. In 1955 he also began to try his hand at lithography. In 1958 he exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Breteau, where the "masks", the "gods" and the "monsters" appeared for the first time. In 1959 he participated in “L’Europe nouvelle” in Lausanne. In 1961 he exhibited at the Tooth Gallery in London in a collective exhibition and with a solo exhibition at the Galerie le Zodiaque in Brussels. In 1965 he exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Rive Gauche, in Lille at the Galerie Nord and in Copenhagen at the Galerie Birch. In 1966 he exhibited at the Konstmuseum in Gothenburg. In 1967 he exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and at the Galerie Seibu in Tokyo. From 1968 to 1976 he exhibited annually at the Galerie Ariel for which he created a series of lithographs on Scandinavian mythology...

Translating to "The Lay of the Lance" this vibrant and brutal series of four lithographs accompanied by fragments of Viking poems, translated into French. They tell the story of a ki...

Lithograph, 1990 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 100 Printer : Grapholith 56.00 cm. x 76.00 cm. 22.05 in. x 29.92 in. (paper) 56.00 cm. x 76.00 cm. 22.05 in. x 29.92 i...