Red Vase Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen 1951

An original painting of a red vase by the Danish Surrealist artist, ceramacist and designer Wilhelm Bjerke-Petersen (1909-1957).  

A son of an art historian, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen studied fine art first at the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts and then under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky during the 1930s at the Bauhaus in Dessau. His art consistently explored abstract surrealism and he was a lively advocate of the Surrealist art form through-out Scandinavia. In the 1950s he designed ceramics at the infamous Rörstrand porcelain factory.

Danish, Gouache on paper, Signed ‘Vilh. Bjerke Petersen -51’. Provenance: A private collection of the family of the artists wife, Eva-Lisa Lennartsson.

Some time stains and marks to the paper.

Framed in black wood with art glass at Bergevall Ramar, Stockholm.

H 58.5cm x  W 43