Bengt Lindström (1925-2008), Abstract hand signed lithograph, 1970s

Original modernist signed color lithograph by the eminent swedish painter and graphic artist bengt lindström (1925-2008) The work comes from the 1970s. Handwritten and numbered by the author in the lower part. The lithograph is framed. Dimensions are shown with the frame. Bengt karl erik lindström born in 1925, died in 2008. He was a swedish painter and graphic artist. Lindström was one of sweden's most famous contemporary artists. His paintings most often depicted colored contorted faces. Bengt lindström graduated from härnösand and moved to stockholm in 1944, where he studied briefly at konstfack and then at the grünewald school of painting. He also studied in copenhagen and chicago. From 1948 he lived and worked in paris, where he studied at the painting schools of andré lhotes and fernand léger. He spent his years in sweden, where he had a studio in essvik near sundsvall. After his early paintings in the cubist direction, he developed a colorful and spontaneous figure painting associated with the cobra group. He painted grotesque figures with broad strokes of the brush. In 1954 bengt lindström had his first individual exhibition in sweden. The international breakthrough came after an exhibition in paris in 1958. Bengt lindstrom has done several public works in the form of murals and outdoor sculpture at sundsvall-timrå airport in timrå. Lindström is on display at the contemporary museum, the national museum in stockholm, the norrköping art museum and the kalmar art museum, among others, and in many private collections around the world.

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