Description:

Artist: Helge Christiansen (born 1913), Danish painter
Abstract Composition
Technique: Watercolour on paper
Date: Ca. 1960s
Image size: H. 19 cm, W. 13 cm
Frame: H. 28 cm, W. 22 cm, gilt wooden frame with passepartout
Signature: Signed lower right “Helge Christiansen”
Condition: Good condition with age-related traces

A colourist abstraction by Helge Christiansen, where deep blue and violet tones create a geometric division of the pictorial surface. The central field in lighter blue opens the composition and gives the work an almost architectural character. Christiansen’s watercolour reflects the Danish post-war modernist interest in colour planes and spatial relations.

Bio:
Helge Christensen (1913–1986) was a Danish painter who worked within the abstract and modernist idiom in the mid-20th century. His works are characterised by a restrained yet precise use of colour and an interest in structural and geometric compositions, often executed in watercolour and oil.