Lucebert artwork • watercolour • drawing • for sale Hillbilly
Lucebert
Amsterdam 1924-1994 Alkmaar
1924-1994
Hillbilly
gouache on paper 70.0 x 100.4 cm, signed l.c. and dated 76.VIII.28
This work on paper is for sale.
Price: € 7,500
Provenance: Kunsthandel Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden 1995 (als 'slapend hart').
Literature: tent.cat. 'Lucebert: Arbeiten auf Papier 1950-1987', Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur/Freiburg, Kunstverein Freiburg im Schwarzes Kloster/Oldenburg, Landesmuseum Oldenburg/Innsbruck, Galerie im Taxispalais, 1988, pag. 63, cat.nr. 49, met afb. in kleur pag. 46.
Exhibited: 'Lucebert: Arbeiten auf Papier 1950-1987', Winterthur, Zwitserland, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 26 maart-18 mei 1988/Freiburg, Zwitserland, Kunstverein Freiburg im Schwarzes Kloster, 3 juni-3 juli 1988/Oldenburg, Zwitserland, Landesmuseum Oldenburg, 17 juli-4 sept. 1988/Innsbruck, Oostenrijk, Galerie im Taxispalais, 13 sept.-7 okt. 1988.
Lucebert was an experimental painter, maker of drawings, poet and one of the leading figures of the CoBrA movement. His work typically shows an immense freedom and spontaneity. He painted what popped up in his mind, without sticking to any fixed motives. In the 1950s he began making his drawings and watercolours from dots, lines and cross-hatchings, over which he painted the – deliberately – clumsy forms of human bodies and fantasy creatures. A tendency for always wanting to experiment, led him into many other fields: he photographed, made ceramics, wrote plays and painted monumental murals.
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