GEER VAN VELDE Œuvres de méditation: Exposition

This exhibition presents six oils on canvas and around twenty works on paper. It is accompanied by a catalog with a text by Pierre François Moget, an expert on the Dutch artist. Geer and his brother Bram, both artists, initially learned the craft of decorative painting, but very quickly became convinced that painting was their true vocation. In 1925, the two brothers settled in Paris and began a bohemian and penniless artistic life. In 1937, Geer van Velde became friends with Samuel Beckett, who secured his first exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's brand-new London gallery. During the summer of 1938, Geer van Velde and his wife moved to Cagnes-sur-Mer, overlooking the Mediterranean. During the six years he spent in this village, he developed the elements of his future work with an increasingly abstract formal vocabulary. He organized his composition of space and light according to rules that gradually became more precise. In 1944, he returned to Paris and settled in Cachan. The theme of the studio became the essential subject of his work, a new source of inspiration, a new light. It was the ultimate place for the painter's intimacy with his creation...