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Lot description
Ib Geertsen, Danish 1919-2009 - Composition, c.1950; oil on board, 50 x 61 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance: the Collection of Kristian Romare (1926-2015), gifted in the 1950s Note: bears inscription on the reverse with the artist's name 'Ib Geertsen Composition gift in the early 1950s to the art critic Kristian Romare'. Romare was a Swedish tv critic and art historian, who was married to artist Everlyn Nicodemus. The pair wrote together 'Africa, art criticism and the big commentary' in 2011. This work from the 1950s demonstrates the artists mature painterly style, based on pure form and colour. He had a major retrospective at the Kunsthallen Nicolaj, Copenhagen in 2003 and his first exhibition in London at Rocket in 2009. His work can be found in numerous public collections in Denmakr including Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum and Trapholt Museum, Kolding.