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Product description
Anton Rooskens (1906-1976) Title: Printemps Technique: Lithography Hand-signed: Signed by artist Year: 1972 Edition: 127/200 Condition: Very Good Dimensions image: 70 x 52.5 cm Dimensions frame: 93 x 78 cm. Concerns black wooden Barth frame, 2 cm wide, 2,5 cm high. Has some user damage see photos. Anton Rooskens attended a trade school in Venlo from 1924 to 1934, after which he was apprenticed to an instrument maker. In 1935 he went to live in Amsterdam. Self-taught, he painted mostly landscapes in which the influence of Van Gogh is clearly visible. While visiting the "Art and Freedom" exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 1945, Rooskens was struck by the African sculptures and ancestral carvings from New Guinea. The simple, clean lines characteristic of this art can be found in Rooskens' work from the early postwar period, along with Cubist influences. Beginning in 1946, Rooskens was in regular contact with Appel, Corneille and Brands. In 1948, he met Constant. That year he co-founded the Dutch Experimental Group, which would later merge with CoBrA. Rooskens participated in the famous CoBrA exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1949, but withdrew from the movement almost immediately afterwards. Nevertheless, his ties to CoBrA proved very stimulating. Rooskens developed a personal language of magical marks in pervasive black, yellow, ochre, blue and red, and created compositions in which masks, shields and images of gods intertwine in a tangle of spontaneous colors and lines that nevertheless form a certain balance. In 1954, he briefly switched to a geometric style influenced by African art. From 1956 his work is increasingly described with dynamically executed abstract marks on large canvases. Black paint applied in firm strokes plays a prominent role. Around 1965, fantasy creatures, reminiscent of the CoBrA period, appear in his work. His paintings become brighter again and remain so until his death in 1976.
Minor signs of use on the frame
Minor signs of use on the frame
Specifications
ConditionVery goodColorsPurple, Green, Red, Yellow, BlackMaterialWood, GlassNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeMediumHeight93 cmWidth78 cm