Otto Gustaf Carlsund - Opérateur brun - image-1

Lot 257 D

Otto Gustaf Carlsund - Opérateur brun

Auction 1143 - overview Cologne
29.11.2019, 18:00 - Modern Art I
Estimate: 40.000 € - 60.000 €
Result: 93.000 € (incl. premium)

Otto Gustaf Carlsund

Opérateur brun
1926

Pastel crayon, gouache, and India ink over pencil drawing on smooth paper 42 x 17.9 cm (depiction) resp. 43.6 x 27 cm Framed under glass. Monogrammed and dated 'o.c.26' in India ink lower right. - The composition outlined in pencil. In fine condition.

After beginning his artistic education in Dresden, the Swedish painter and art critic Otto Carlsund moved to Paris in 1924, where he studied under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the newly founded Académie Moderne.
On the back of his first successes, Carlsund was as early as 1926 invited by Katherine Dreier and the “Société Anonyme” to participate in the “International Exhibition of Modern Art” in New York. In 1929 he joined Theo van Doesburg, Jean Hélion and Léon Tutundjian in founding the artists group and magazine “Art Concret” in Paris. The title makes direct reference to the idea of “concrete art” formulated by Theo van Doesburg in 1924, the abstraction of which does not derive from the manifestations of nature, but rather aims to materialize the spiritual.
Carlsund's creative work, which includes not only panel painting but also large-format wall paintings and interior design, is considered a synthesis of Ozenfant's purism, the Constructivist ideas of van Doesburg and the Neo-Plasticism of Piet Mondrian. His clearly constructed geometrical (or as in the case of our work, machine-like) compositions are milestones in Scandinavian avant-garde art and were extremely well received in Carlsund's homeland of Sweden as early as 1947 in a major retrospective.

Provenance

Formerly from the collection of Amédée Ozenfant; Delerge Collection, Cannes; European private collection