- Modernist paintings with a Scandinavian touch- First monograph about
Thorvald Hellesen- An artist from the avant-garde circle of Pablo
Picasso, Constantin Brâncuși, and Piet MondrianThorvald Hellesen
(1888-1937) was a Norwegian avant-garde artist who lived and worked in
Paris in the 1910s and 1920s. He and his wife, the French artist Hélène
Perdriat, were part of a circle of artists that included Pablo Picasso,
Fernand Léger, Constantin Brâncuși, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg,
and many others. In his short yet intense life, Thorvald Hellesen
created an impressive unique oeuvre, oriented on Modernism, consisting
of oil paintings, watercolors, gouaches, drawings, design projects, and
textiles. Nevertheless, even in Norway he is only known to a few. With
this publication the authors Dag Blakkisrud, Matthew Drutt, and Hilde
Mørch have created a written portrait of Hellesen. In addition to
classifying him within the history of art, they try to find explanations
as to why his artistic practice is only now being considered important
and interesting for Norwegian and international art history.