Bram Bogart ranks amongst the principal artists of the ‘Informel’, the large post-war movement which abandoned geometric abstraction in favour of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to action painting, but often a lot more textural. Bogart worked at the heart of the movement, which included artists such as Alberto Burri in Italy and Antonio Tàpies in Spain. Although Bogart has used the same technique since the early 1950s, he has always been able to renew his painting and is considered a pioneer of the post-war 'matter' movement.

In the summer of 1959, Bogart moved into a studio in Brussels whilst commuting between Rome and Paris. Whereas his Parisian paintings are monochrome in palette and almost romantic in their expression, the Italian and Belgian works are painted with virile, confident strokes in rich ochres. In Italy, Bogart’s deep connection with Nature was truly awakened and back in Brussels he took his paintings off the easel and started working on paintings laid out flat on the floor, often outdoors.

MUSEUMS: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; S.M.A.K, Ghent; Musée du Louvre, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; Guggenheim, New York.

The work of Bram Bogart is present in the following museum collections: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; S.M.A.K, Ghent; Musée du Louvre, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; Guggenheim, New York.