Margot Bergman

Ambiguous portraits: Margot Bergman finally comes to Europe

Chicago artist Margot Bergman (born 1934) acquires landscape paintings--usually small-format works--at thrift stores and flea markets, and discovers hidden faces in them which she draws out by painting over sections of the canvas. A touch of humor often shines out of these melancholy faces, which oscillate stylistically between surrealism and outsider art. Bergman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3775745262
• ISBN13: 9783775745260
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 10.8"