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Lot description
Francis Bott, German 1904-1998 - Composition, 1974; mixed media on Japanese paper, signed lower right 'Francis Bott', 24.5 x 25 cm (ARR) Provenance: Christie's, South Kensington, Works from the Studio of Francis Bott, 16 November 2006; Roseberys, London, Art & Antiques, 6th January 2018, lot 369; Private Collection, purchased from the above Note: beginning his artistic career in the 1930s, Bott was encouraged to paint by the likes of Oskar Kokoschka and Francis Picabia. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are dominated by the surrealist styles that were so prevalent in Europe during the period, and he exhibited works at the 1947 Gallerie Maeght Surrealist Show, organised by Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp. By 1948 his works transitioned more to abstraction and by the mid-1950s he was much in demand, exhibiting alongside Ben Nicholson at the Kunsthaus, Zurich in 1955.