Bob Bonies (1937) - CFM IV Original Serigraph (1987)

Bob Bonies: Untitled — Original Serigraph (1987)

A hand-printed serigraph, pulled by hand on high-quality paper at Edition Partanen in 1987. Square format, 30 × 30 cm. From an edition of 90; this impression is numbered 60/90 and hand-signed and numbered in pencil in the lower left.

Bob Bonies was born in The Hague in 1937. As a young artist he turned, under the influence of COBRA, to a lyrical, expressive abstraction; after his journey to the United States and Canada in the early 1960s his work moved steadily towards reduction. He trained at the Vrije Academie and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and at the Konstfack in Stockholm. With his constructivist idiom — built from squares and rectangles and restricted to the primary colours together with green and white — he gave fresh impetus to Dutch geometric art. He regards himself as a successor to De Stijl, the movement of Mondrian and Van Doesburg, and his work equally stands in the lineage of the Russian avant-garde of Malevich and El Lissitzky.

His first solo exhibition was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1966; in the same year he took part in the international exhibition "Forms of Colors" (Amsterdam, Bern, Stuttgart), alongside Josef Albers, Max Bill, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Paul Lohse, Barnett Newman and Frank Stella. From 1988 to 2001 he was director of the Vrije Academie in The Hague. His work is held in public collections including the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. In keeping with his position, Bonies leaves his works untitled — colour and form refer to nothing beyond themselves.
Selected exhibitions:
1966 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) — first solo exhibition
1966 "Forms of Colors", Amsterdam – Bern – Stuttgart