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Anton Rooskens artwork • painting • previously for sale 'Penthouse'

Rooskens J.A.  | Joseph Antoon 'Anton' Rooskens, 'Penthouse', oil on board 100.5 x 121.5 cm, signed u.r. and dated '55

Anton Rooskens

'Penthouse'
oil on board 100.5 x 121.5 cm, signed u.r. and dated '55

This painting was previously for sale.

Literature: tent.cat. Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle, 'Reisebilder. Non figurativer Maler', 1955, met afb. (in zwart-wit); Ed Wingen, 'Rooskens', Venlo 1976, afb. pag. 181.
Exhibited: Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle, 'Reisebilder. Non figurativer Maler', 16 april-28 mei 1955; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Tentoonstelling Liga Nieuw Beelden', 29 mei-20 juni 1965; Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, 'Anton Rooskens - Hommage', 25 nov. 2006-25 febr. 2007.

Anton Rooskens had been working as an artist for some time when, in 1945, he made a radical turnabout and began working in a free, unfettered idiom. This led to him to joining the Netherlands Experimental Group and then the Cobra artists. Rooskens drew inspiration for his abstract expressionist pictures from ‘primitive’ African and pre-Columbian art, which had been discovered by many artists after the war. Thus, idols, masks, shields and typical African ornament can be found in nearly all his works of the 40s and 50s, which are also dominated by a lively interplay of lines and liberal use of black. After 1965 the compositions become increasingly colorful. The shapes often have black outlines, and bird motifs in red, yellow and blue are used extensively.


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