Bram BOGART (1921-2012), "Le Perroquet de Monsieur Vollard", monumental sculpture in coloured plaster. The work is mounted on a solid blue-stained wooden structure with a metal support base. Signed and dated 1989 lower right on the side. Countersigned on the back and titled. On the back is a label from the gallery "Protée, Paris 199, reference 1743". H. 165 x 168 cm H. 194 cm (with base) The son of a blacksmith, Bram Bogart grew up in Delft in the Netherlands, where he studied painting. Pursuing his desire to become an artist, he enrolled at the Fine Arts School in The Hague. During the Second World War, he went into hiding to avoid forced labour imposed by the German army. After the liberation, he moved to Paris, then Belgium, where he became a naturalized citizen. His artistic career brought him into contact with movements such as Art Informel, the CoBrA group in Paris and the international Zéro group, but his work is above all marked by the gradual accentuation of its volumetric dimension. As he experimented, mixing mortar, siccative, chalk powder, varnish and pigments, Bram Bogart added more and more substance and thickness to his paintings, until they became high-reliefs, sculpture-paintings. Provenance: Catherine Clerc-de Goumoëns Collection Reference: Bram Bogart exhibition Bram Bogart exhibition: Galerie Guy Pieters, chemin des Trious, Saint-Paul de Vence, France Galerie Protée, 38 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris Mrs. Rita Hughes, David Hughes Gallery, Middle Lambrook Manor, South Petherton Somerset England The Mayor Gallery 22a Cork Street London