Lucebert (1924-1994) - Hemelse Boden

Lucebert
Hemelse Boden
1983
Oil on canvas
Size without frame: 97 x 130 cm

From a private collection, Dutch

Certificate can be provided on request.

For shipments outside NL/BE, the frame will be removed.


The painting Hemelse Boden (1983) by Lucebert shows how the artist translated his poetic imagination into visual art. Lucebert, known as one of the most important representatives of the COBRA movement, developed in his paintings an expressive and free visual language in which figures, emotions, and symbolism constantly seem to be in motion.

In this work several faces and figures float through a swirling blue space. The figures are distorted and built up from bold, loose brushstrokes and contrasting colors. Their large, piercing eyes and irregular forms give them an almost mythical or spiritual appearance. The title Hemelse Boden suggests messengers from another world – figures that seem to drift between dream, fantasy, and reality.

The painting clearly bears the hallmarks of Lucebert’s expressive style: raw, intuitive, and at the same time poetic. The faces appear to represent separate personalities or voices, but together form a dynamic, almost cosmic composition. In this world of drifting figures and intense colors, Lucebert evokes an atmosphere where the earthly and the spiritual meet, and where his pictorial work shows the same freedom and imagination as his poetry.