Jacob Bornfriend 1904-1976
Blue Grey Fishes, c. 1950s-60s
oil on canvas
61.6 x 49 cm
(lower right): J. Bornfriend
1987-50
© Jacob Bornfriend estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
From the late 1950s onwards, Bornfriend experimented with abstraction in dialogue with British Abstractionists Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon, exploring rhythm, pattern, colour and gestural mark-making. The loose brush strokes...
From the late 1950s onwards, Bornfriend experimented with abstraction in dialogue with British Abstractionists Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon, exploring rhythm, pattern, colour and gestural mark-making. The loose brush strokes in the artist’s favoured blue-grey palette contribute to the abstract style of Bornfriend’s composition. Primarily a painter in oil and tempera, he favoured still lifes and landscape.
