COBRA painting signed Anders Osterlin ( 1925 - 2011) and dated 1953.

Very fine work (pencil, mixed media on card) signed Anders Osterlin ( 1925 - 2011) and dated 1953.
Size : 35 x 50 cm
Appraised by Cabinet Maréchaux

Swedish painter Anders Osterlin exhibited his first works in 1946 with C. O. Hultén and Max Walter Svanberg, and together they founded the Swedish art group Imaginisterne.
Anders travels to Paris in 1947 and makes contact with COBRA. He is very active with Hultén in Sweden, creating a Swedish edition of COBRA magazine.
In 1949, Appel, Corneille and Constant visited C. O. Hultén and Anders in Malmoe, where they were producing a collective work entitled "Some of These Days".
Anders Osterlin took part in the famous Host 1948 exhibition and other COBRA exhibitions.
In addition to exhibiting during his school years, he made his debut at the Skåne Art Association's autumn exhibition in 1946 and then regularly took part in the association's exhibitions in Malmö and Lund, participated in the Scanian avant-garde art group show at the Malmö museum and the surrealist demonstration at the Aleby Expo in Stockholm. Österlin was represented in several Stockholm shows organized by the Swedish Public Art Society. He soon became involved in international group exhibitions, taking part in the Spiral exhibition in Copenhagen in 1949, the Cobra exhibition in Amsterdam and Liège, Paroles visibles at Galerie la Roue, the Première confrontation d'art expérimental at Galerie Creuze in Paris, Nordic abstract art in Oslo. We also exhibited at L'Art Suèdois Avtuel in Paris, the Salon Comparaisons in Paris and the Imaginistes jubilee exhibition in Lund in 1967. With the Imaginists.
He has exhibited at Modern Art in Home Environment, Gothenburg Art Gallery, Malmö, Paris and Galleria il Numero. in Florence and Lund. His first major solo exhibition was at Galerie Colibri in Malmö in 1955, followed by solo shows at Färg och Form in Stockholm, Galerie la Roue in Paris, Svensk Form in Stockholm, Gallery 54 in Gothenburg and Galerie Piere in Stockholm.

Ref: I0037RC5C8