Vintage color lithograph on van gelder zonen paper by Esaias Thorén, 1972

Esaias Thorén, 1972Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paperNumber 300300This work is signed by the artist and has an individual number(in pencil)Size of work 5260Unframed workTheodor Esaias Thorén was born in Halmstad in 1901, he died in 1981. He was a Swedish painter, sculptor and designer. In 1925 Thorén studied with the Swedish artist Carl Wilhelmsson in Stockholm, and in 1926 he went to Paris. He was one of the founders of the Halmstadgruppen, an art collective founded in 1929. Among them were Sven Jonson, Waldemar Lorentzon, Stellan Marner and the brothers Axel and Erik Olson. In the early 1920s, Thorén painted mainly in a post-cubist style, which increasingly incorporated surrealist themes. In the late 1920s, Thorén's work became very geometric and abstract as he became more involved with the avant-garde art group Art Concret in Paris. In 1930, Thorén participated in the Art Concret exhibition in Stockholm (International Utställning av Postkubistisk Konst) organized by the Swedish avant-garde artist and art critic Otto Gustaf Carsund. Thorén exhibited extensively throughout Sweden until 1965, and examples of Thorén's work can be found in the collections of the Moderna Muséet in Stockholm, the National Gallery of Art in New York, the National Gallery in Oslo, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Malmö Museum, Gävle, Örebro and Halmstad. The works are also on display at the Institut Tessin (also known as the Centre Culturel Suédois), which is a Parisian museum dedicated to the history of Franco-Swedish artistic exchange.Van Gelder Papier was a paper manufacturer whose origins date back to 1685. The company was based in Wormer, the Netherlands. This type of handmade paper is famous - especially in France - Hollandde paper with the Van Gelder Zonen watermark.Original vintage condition.