
Bengt LINDSTRÖM
1925–2008, Sweden

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Oljemålning på papper, komposition med ett ansikte och hand, signerad "Lindstrom", storlek 43x30 cm. Målningen var till salu hos en annonssajt i Sverige i mars 2015. Målningen uppmärksammades av Bengt Lindströms änka Michele Lindström som kontaktade polisen och uppgav att målningen var en förfalskning. Målningen tog i beslag för utredning. Domstolens beslut: Undersökning och expertutlåtande visade på att målningen var en förfalskning. Målningen är förverkad.

Signature proven counterfeit
Acrylic/Oil on canvas, composition, signed "Lindstrom", size 125x115 cm. The painting had been submitted to a major auction house in Stockholm for sale in autumn 2012. The auction house staff suspected that the painting was not genuine and therefore contacted Bengt Lindström's widow Michelle Lindstrom who confirmed that Bengt Lindström had not painted this painting nor signed it. The police took charge of the painting and began an investigation which showed that both the painting and the signature was forged. The painting has been forfeited.

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Oil on canvas, motifs with figurative composition, signed "Lindstrom", size 116x89. The painting was for sale at an online auction house in Stockholm in 2010. It was observed by Michele Lindstrom, Bengt Lindström's widow who immediately alerted that the painting was not painted by Bengt Lindstrom. It was a forgery! Police began an investigation with a number of experts at which all were agreed that the painting was a forgery. One expert hesitated on weak grounds which led to the acquittal of both district and city courts as court of appeal. The painting was returned to the owner. Warning: The painting is a forgery and is now on the market again.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil painting on panel, motifs with figurative composition, signed "Lindstrom", size 47x47 cm. The painting was for sale at an online auction house in Stockholm in 2011. It was observed by Michele Lindstrom, Bengt Lindström's widow who immediately alerted that the painting was not painted by Bengt Lindstrom. It was a forgery! Police began an investigation with a number of experts at which all were agreed that the painting was a forgery. The painting has been forfeited.

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Five counterfeits signed "Lindstrom". Was part of the TV program "Crime of the Week" November 2012. Four of the paintings are painted on panel, one is painted on canvas. Sizes are: 78x73, 57x56, 57x50, 55x46 and 46x38 cm. The paintings were for sale through an online auction house in Stockholm, Sweden in autumn 2012. Police were called by the auction house staff who considered the paintings was not genuine. In the police interrogation stated owner that he bought the paintings for some fifteen years ago by two people. He remembered only the name of one of these people "Håkan" better known as "Alaska" also known to the police as great scammer in art contexts. All the paintings were counterfeits and were forfeited.

Signature proven counterfeit
Four counterfeit paintings signed "Lindstrom" ostensibly depicting four genuine paintings by the Swedish artist Bengt Lindström. Approximate size 52x42 cm. A major auction houses in Stockholm contacted the police and stated that they had four paintings signed Lindstrom and that these were probably fakes. All four of the paintings were of poor quality with sloppy performed signatures. The seller was a company whose owner had died. The paintings had an investment value of around 3,600 euros (300,000 SEK) and would now be sold. The auction house contacted Bengt Lindström's widow Michelle Lindström who immediately confirmed that Bengt Lindström had not performed the four paintings. Police started a expert survey and it turned out that the paintings were fakes.

Signature proven counterfeit
Three paintings were seized by police during a home visit at a person in Stockholm Sweden since Bengt Lindström's widow reported that a counterfeit painting by Bengt Lindström was for sale at the online ad portal "Blocket". In the person's residence, police found two more counterfeit signed "Lindstrom," a gouache 89x59 cm and two oil paintings 52x63 cm. The owner stated that she purchased all three through the online ad portal "Blocket" in 2011 for 50,000 SEK (approx. 5500 Euro). The deal was made up at the rest area Tönnebro in Hälsingland, Sweden. The seller stated that the paintings came directly from Bengt Lindstrom whom he was good friends with. During the police investigation revealed that several people were involved in several strange business with the paintings, but no one knew where they really came from. The paintings have been examined and found to be counterfeit. They have been forfeited.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 33x40 cm, motif with abstract figurative composition, signed "Lindstrom" ostensibly picturing an authentic oil painting by the renowned artist Bengt Lindström. The painting had been submitted to an auction house in Stockholm for sale through the auction house online sales in February 2012. The auction house contacted Bengt Lindström's wife, widow of Bengt Lindström, when they wanted to get an assessment of authenticity. The painting was found to be a forgery and police were contacted for further investigation. The owners of the painting, an older couple, say they bought the painting in February 1988 for SEK 30,000 at a gallery in Stockholm's Old Town. The couple reacted to the different framework. Gallery owner said, however, that the frame had been selected by Bengt Lindström himself and who, they alleged, just a few days earlier visited the gallery on his journey through Stockholm. Court: The painting has been examined by experts and found to have many similarities with several forgeries made by a well known counterfeiters. The painting is a forgery and should be forfeited.

Signature proven counterfeit
Acrylic painting on canvas, composition, signed "Lindstrom", 46x55 cm. Ostensibly picturing a genuine painting by Bengt Lindström. The painting had been submitted for sale at a major auction house in Stockholm in autumn 2012. Auction house's own experts suspect that the painting was not genuine when its style was not typical of Lindstrom's way of painting. The signature was clumsy and hesitant done. Police were called who took the painting seized for further investigation where it was found that the painting was a forgery.

Signature proven counterfeit
Large case with many forged paintings, ostensibly depicting Bengt Lindström, called "Alaska case." In a period between 2000-2010 there appeared a number of counterfeit paintings signed Bengt Lindström. They were found at both auction houses, pawn shops, Internet auctions and private sales via ads. All the paintings could be traced to a single individual living in a small town in central Sweden. In search of the man's home found further a large number of forgeries, also depicting other famous artists. It is unknown how many fakes that are still in circulation on the market. The Court of Appeal, the district court's assessment: The paintings are not genuine works of Bengt Lindström nor signed by him. The paintings are counterfeiting's. The crime are aggravated fraud.

Signature proven counterfeit
In 2010, police seized a large quantity of oil paintings signed "Lindstrom" picturing artwork by renowned artist Bengt Lindström. The paintings have undergone careful studies of expertise and is deemed as counterfeit both in painting and signing. Both the District Court as the Court of Appeal chose an acquittal when it was felt that the evidence was insufficient for a conviction. All the paintings could be derived to a person known to the police and which appear in several similar fraud. He was convicted, however, of having forged two paintings signed Peter Dahl

Signature proven counterfeit
A private individual owned six oil paintings on canvas signed "Lindstrom". He suspected that it might be counterfeits, and when visiting the Antique Fair in Stockholm in 2010 he got in touch with Bengt Lindström's widow Michelle Lindström. She said they were counterfeits and police started a investigation. The paintings have been fully assessed by experts and deemed as fakes. The owner had bought all the paintings in the early 2000s by a person who calls himself "Alaska" and appearing in several similar fraud offenses. Court: The paintings are not done Bengt Lindström nor signed by him. They are forged.

Signature proven counterfeit
This painting was confiscated in April 2003, after notification from an auction firm in Stockholm. Experts established that it was a forgery on stylistic grounds. The motive is typical Bengt Lindström; a grotesque face and a beast emerging from the left. However, the technique differs from Lindström’s, especially at the bottom of the picture. It has been painted too meticulously with short brushstrokes. Bengt Lindström was known to apply paint with strong, sweeping brushstrokes. Neither the frame nor the decoration frame are of the kind he normally uses; they are imitations. The painting is a complete forgery. It is either a falsely signed pastiche or a copy – probably the latter.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 55x45 cm. Motif: Figure Composition with face, signed Lindström. The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm, May 2008. The painting was introduced by a Swedish Pawn shop in Malmo, pledged value 29,000 SEK. It had pledged by a private person . At the police questioning states that he bought several Lindström-paintings at a major auction house in Stockholm and from the internet trading site ”Blocket”, Sweden, but also on advertising in the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan. He states further that he is self-taught art expert since many years and he is now a partner in an antique shop in Malmö, Sweden. He state a gambling addiction as the cause of all the paintings in the inquiry pledged but can not explaining that he has not checked out these within the specified time. The painting has been examined by experts in Bengt Lindström's paintings including Bengt Lindström's wife Michèle Lindström. The painting is a counterfeit copy of an original painting by Bengt Lindström. The original painting was done in acrylic on paper and was stolen at a burglary in Bengt Lindström's home in Sundsvall in the late 1990's. The district court's decision. Serious fraud., Painting and signature falsification. The painting has not been performed by Bengt Lindström nor signed by him.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 81x66 cm, signed Lindstrom. This painting and a number of other paintings signed Lindstrom (Bengt Lindstrom) was for sale, with a major auction house in Stockholm. When the paintings were published for sale Michele Lindstrom (widow of Bengt Lindstrom) contacted the auction house and said that two of the paintings were forged. The auction house contacted police who took the paintings seized. The paintings were in a private home and seized by the Enforcement Authority in connection with a seizure of the property.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, figurative motif composition, 41x35 cm. The painting was confiscated, along with numerous of other Bengt Lindström-paintings, by the Enforcement Officer in Lulea in connection with a seizure 2007. Most of the paintings were counterfeit and were detected, in part, already by police in northern Sweden. Some of the paintings were sent to Bukowski's auction house in Stockholm for the assessment. Bukowski discovered immediately that they were counterfeit and contacted the police in Stockholm City.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas. Figure composition, signed "Lindstrom", 80x100 cm. The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm, May 2008. The painting had been submitted by a Swedish Pawn shop in Malmö, Sweden, pledged value 35,000 SEK. It had pledged by a private person . At the police questioning states that he bought several Lindstrom-paintings at a major auction house in Stockholm and in Internet commerce site "Blocket" Sweden, but also through advertisement in the newspaper Sydsvenskan, Sweden. He states further that he is self-taught art expert since many years and he is now a partner in an antique shop in Malmö, Sweden. He state a gambling addiction as the cause of all the paintings in the inquiry pledged but can not explaining that he had not checked out these within the specified time. The painting has been examined by experts in Bengt Lindström's paintings including Bengt Lindström's wife Michèle Lindström. The painting is a counterfeit copy of an original painting by Bengt Lindström, the signature is performed by an amateur. The district court's decision. Serious fraud., Painting and signature falsification. The painting has not been performed by Bengt Lindström nor signed by him.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 32x23 cm, signed Lindstrom. This painting and a number of other paintings signed Lindstrom (Bengt Lindstrom) was for sale, with a major auction house in Stockholm. When the paintings were published for sale 'website was contacted auction work by Michele Lindstrom (widow of Bengt Lindstrom) who said that two of the paintings were forged. The staff of the Auction Office contacted the police who took the paintings seized. The paintings were in a private home and seized by the Enforcement Authority in connection with a seizure of the property.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 32x23 cm, signed Lindstrom. This painting and a number of other paintings signed Lindstrom (Bengt Lindstrom) was for sale, with a major auction house in Stockholm. When the paintings were published for sale 'website was contacted auction work by Michele Lindstrom (widow of Bengt Lindstrom) who said that two of the paintings were forged. The staff of the Auction Office contacted the police who took the paintings seized. The paintings were in a private home and seized by the Enforcement Authority in connection with a seizure of the property.

Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media (acrylic) on paper. Motif with man bitten by a wolf, signed "Lindstrom", 57x76 cm. Ostensibly representing a genuine painting by Bengt Lindström. The painting had been submitted for sale at a minor auction house in Stockholm in autumn 2009. On the same occasion was also submitted the below painting, 0201-K302507-09. The paintings' owners, a man and a woman, had themselves been deceived when they bought the paintings via Ebay for 1250 GBP per piece. Along with the paintings attached certificate of authenticity issued by "Sygun Museum of Wales." After expert review and judgment declared that this painting is not genuine. It's a forgery.

Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media (acrylic) on paper. Subjects with fire-breathing man, signed "Lindstrom", 57x76 cm. Ostensibly picturing a genuine painting by Bengt Lindström. The painting had been submitted for sale at a minor auction house in Stockholm in autumn 2009. On the same occasion was also submitted the above painting, 0201-K302507-09. The paintings' owners, a man and a woman, had themselves been victims of fraud when they bought the paintings via Ebay for 1250 GBP per piece. Along with the paintings attached certificate of authenticity issued by "Sygun Museum of Wales." After expert review and judgment was explained that this painting not genuine. It's a forgery.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, blue composition, 42x43 cm. The painting was confiscated, along with numerous of other Bengt Lindström-paintings, by the Enforcement Officer in Lulea in connection with a seizure 2007. Most of the paintings were counterfeit and were detected, in part, already by police in northern Sweden. Some of the paintings were sent to Bukowski's auction house in Stockholm for the assessment. Bukowski discovered immediately that they were counterfeit and contacted the police in Stockholm City.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas. Motif: Figure Composition with face, unsigned, 46x38 cm. The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm, May 2008. The painting was submitted by a Swedish Pawn shop in Malmö, Sweden. It had pledged by a private person. In police questioning he states that he bought several Lindström-paintings at a major auction house in Stockholm and from the internet trading site ”Blocket”, Sweden, but also on the ad in the newspaper Sydsvenskan. He states further that he is self-taught art expert since many years and he is now a partner in an antique shop in Malmö, Sweden. He state a gambling addiction as the cause of all the paintings in the inquiry pledged but can not explaining that he has not checked out these within the specified time. The painting has been examined by experts in Bengt Lindström's paintings including Bengt Lindström's wife Michèle Lindström. The painting is a counterfeit copy of an original painting by Bengt Lindström. The district court's decision. Serious fraud. The painting has not been performed by Bengt Lindström.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, composition, signed "Lindstrom, 45x37 cm. The painting was for sale on the website "Blocket" in Sweden, apparently depicting a genuine work by Bengt Lindström. The painting was owned by a woman living in Bollnäs Hälsingland, Sweden. She had bought it for SEK 15 000 of a person who is well known to police for major fraud business with counterfeit art. The investigation revealed that the man and woman were familiar with each other. The painting was found by Bengt Lindström's widow who immediately contacted the police. The painting was confiscated. The district court's decision: The painting is not painted by Bengt Lindström nor signed by him. The signature on the painting shall be erased thereafter, the painting shall be returned to the owner. Warning! There is a risk that the painting once again imposed a forged signature and will be for sale as a genuine work. Especially in a foreign market in Europe or the United States.

Signature proven counterfeit
Gouach, 75x56 cm, signed Lindstrom. The painting was, along with two non-false paintings, submitted in nov 2010, to an auction house in Stockholm for sale. Estimated Price 18 000 SEK. Bengt Lindström's widow, Michele Lindstrom contacted the auction house and announced that this was a forgery - that the painting was not done by Bengt Lindström. The police took the painting to seizure. Submitter stated that he bought the painting for about 18 years ago from a gallery in Västerås. Crime: Aggravated fraud and signature falsification.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas. Motif: Figure Composition with face, indistinctly signed Lindström, 22x15, 5 cm. The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm, May 2008. The painting was submitted by a Swedish Pawn shop in Malmö. It had pledged by a private person. In police questioning he states that he bought several Lindström-paintings at a major auction house in Stockholm and in Internet trading site ”Blocket”, Sweden, but also on advertising in the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan. He states further that he is self-taught art expert since many years and he is now a partner in an antique shop in Malmö. He state a gambling addiction as the cause of all the paintings in the inquiry pledged but can not explaining that he has not checked out these within the specified time. The painting has been examined by experts in Bengt Lindström's paintings including Bengt Lindström's wife Michèle Lindström. The painting is a counterfeit copy of an original painting, in a larger format, by Bengt Lindström. The district court's decision. Serious fraud., Painting and signature falsification. The painting has not been performed by Bengt Lindström nor signed by him.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 95x38 cm signed Lindstrom. Together with two other fake paintings this painting was submitted in 2008 to a major auction house in Stockholm for sale. Suspicion about the authenticity of the paintings emerged, and police were called who took the paintings seized. The paintings was condemned by several experts and of the artist's wife. Submitter told the police that he purchased the paintings in the Swedish e-commerce site "Blocket".

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 45x35 cm signed Lindstrom. Together with two other fake paintings this painting was submitted in 2008 to a major auction house in Stockholm for sale. Suspicion about the authenticity of the paintings emerged, and police were called who took the paintings seized. The paintings was condemned by several experts and of the artist's wife. Submitter told the police that he purchased the paintings in the Swedish e-commerce site "Blocket".

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 71x44,5 cm signed Lindstrom. Together with two other fake paintings this painting was submitted in 2008 to a major auction house in Stockholm for sale. Suspicion about the authenticity of the paintings emerged, and police were called who took the paintings seized. The paintings was condemned by several experts and of the artist's wife. Submitter told the police that he purchased the paintings in the Swedish e-commerce site "Blocket".

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil/acrylic on canvas signed Lindstrom. The painting was submitted to an auction house in Uppsala for sale. It was found to be fake and the investigation was sentenced painting out of a number of experts and of the artist's wife - it is not painted by B Lindstrom. Submitter states that he bought målningn at an exhibition at Örebro Castle sometime during 2004 or 2005.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas 49x59 cm. A private person, Mr. ..., saw an advertisement in a Swedish newspaper that Bengt Lindström paintings for sale very cheap. He contacted the seller and they agreed on a price for the three paintings on 26 000 SEK. The man, who really only wanted one painting, left the other two to an auction house for sale. Shortly afterwards, the auction house contacted Mr. ... and announced that the paintings were fakes and that they seized by police. Mr. ... submitted also the third painting to the police.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas 37x57 cm. A private person, Mr. ..., saw an advertisement in a Swedish newspaper that Bengt Lindström paintings for sale very cheap. He contacted the seller and they agreed on a price for the three paintings on 26 000 SEK. The man, who really only wanted one painting, left the other two to an auction house for sale. Shortly afterwards, the auction house contacted Mr. ... and announced that the paintings were fakes and that they seized by police. Mr. ... submitted also the third painting to the police.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas 56x74 cm. A private person, Mr. ..., saw an advertisement in a Swedish newspaper that Bengt Lindström paintings for sale very cheap. He contacted the seller and they agreed on a price for the three paintings on 26 000 SEK. The man, who really only wanted one painting, left the other two to an auction house for sale. Shortly afterwards, the auction house contacted Mr. ... and announced that the paintings were fakes and that they seized by police. Mr. ... submitted also the third painting to the police.


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Bengt Lindström was born on September 3rd, 1925 in Storsjökapell, a small isolated village in the Swedish province of Norrland. The young child thus grew up in that vast, mythical and harsh expanse of mounts, glistening lakes and endless forests known as Lapland. His father was a primary school teacher who was fond of Lapps and who showed great interest in their ethnic group and culture. The child was only three days old when Lapp King Kroik, his godfather, administered the Baptism of the Earth, where the child is conveyed between two roots of a tree to grant him protection from the Gods. Lapps as well as local lumberjacks would occasionally abandon their silent ways to tell him and reveal the tales, legends and mysteries of the Great White North.
1935-1940: He left Storsjökapell and headed to Härnösand, where he wrote short science-fiction novellas, became a renowned athlete and began to paint.
1944-1945: After graduating from high school, he joined the Isaac Grünewald Art School in Stockholm, Sweden. A former Matisse pupil, Grünewald became his protector and professor. Lindström went on to study drawing with Aksel Jörgensen at the Copenhagen Fine Arts School in Denmark.
1946 : He left for the United States and stayed in Chicago with his aunt, journalist Edith Petersson-Dumas. For a year, he followed courses at the Chicago Art Institute, where Joan Mitchell, among others, was also studying. He realized his first two lithographs, Meditation and Le Modèle Etendu (The Stretched Model).
1947-1949: He arrived in Paris, moving into a small room he rented from André Gide’s niece. He signed up at the Fernand Léger workshop, and then at the André Lhote Academy. He travelled to Italy, where he visited Florence and Assisi, developing a deep fascination for Giotto and Cimabue.
1950-1952: He was granted a scholarship by Swedish magazine Aftontidningen, which helped him move into a workshop in Arcueil, France. He settled for two years in the South of France near Saint-Tropez, where he met philosopher Jean Grenier, who had taught Camus, and who became his friend. He began working on mosaics.
1953-1960: He returned to Paris, once again taking up lithography and engraving, which holds a vital position in his work. He moved into a workshop in Rueil-Malmaison. This was the start of his collaboration with the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris. He began to see Michaux, Delvaux, Dubuffet and Magritte regularly, and especially Asger Jorn who became a very close friend.
1961-1967: London Tooth & Sons Gallery Director M. Cochrane purchased a large number of his works. He left the workshop in Rueil-Malmaison to settle in Savigny-sur-Orge, France. He began taking to figurative art with Masks, Gods and Monsters. He exhibited with the Nouvelle Figuration Group at the Mathias Feld Gallery. He also began working with the Ariel Gallery in Paris.
1968-1969: Lindström completed a series of 10 lithographs about Scandinavian mythology. He also completed a series of drypoint works. An association with the Protée Gallery II in Toulouse, France, led to exhibitions at the Protée II Gallery in Paris starting in 1984.
1970-1971: He executed a large mural painting (unfortunately later fragmented and dispersed at a public auction in 1988) for the restaurant at the Grand Hotel in Härnösand, Sweden. He also made two large frescoes for the Nacksta-Sundsvall covered market in Sweden, which were moved as a protective measure in 2001; one was taken to Midlanda airport, the other to a college in Sundsvall.
1972 Saw the start of a friendship with Bram Van Velde and Max-Pol Fouchet; the latter wrote a splendid epic poem, Heracles, to be staged using backdrops and costumes designed by Bengt Lindström. An album Heracles of engravings illustrating the poem was published in 1977.
1973-1974: He took to sharing his working time between the workshop in Savigny-sur-Orge and the one in Sundsvall. He began a collaboration that was to last several years with the ABCD Gallery in Paris, which provided exclusive publication for his engravings and strong ink work. Pierre Alechinsky came that summer to work in the Sundsvall workshop. He wrote the foreword for a few of Lindström’s catalogues.
1975-1976: Les Hommes du Nord (Men of the North) was the first of the major tapestries. He published a boxed set album, Eddan, Eddan, Eddan, illustrating Scandinavian mythology. Together with Jacques Putman, he completed two editions of bronze sculptures, Les Enfants Sauvages (The Wild Children).
1979-1982: He worked on glass, making thirty dishes and goblets for renowned Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda. He painted a car for Volvo, Sweden’s leading car manufacturer. Then, close to his birthplace, he painted gigantic tarpaulins over forty metres high, covering the slopes of the neighbouring Våladalen Mountain, as a protest against the building of a dam. This action caused a sensation and provoked fierce reactions. The tarpaulins were unfortunately destroyed in a fire. He realized one other fresco in Våladalen. He realized one other fresco in Våladalen. He also created small painted papier mâché sculptures, Têtes (Heads), as well as some gold and silver jewellery.
1983 : He exhibited seven monumental 3x2.5m works at the Art and History Museum in Stockholm: Les Grands Dieux Ase (The Great Aesir Gods), depicting the gods from Scandinavian mythology: Thor, Odin, Frej, Balder, Ymer, Loki and Unknown God, as well as acrylic paintings about the Valkyries. Les Grands Dieux was ultimately exhibited in a purpose-built chapel adjoining the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in 1996. He completed Thor’s Hammer, a monumental sculpture (the car he painted for Volvo in 1980 had featured the hammer, held by the god’s gigantic hand). The sculpture was displayed in the port of Sundsvall until 1990, when it was moved to a park in Östersund, Sweden.
1985 : He lived in the Alicante region, where Spanish friends found him a new workshop. While there he completed Novelda, an album of lithographs featuring poems by Spanish poet Paco Pastor. He spent that summer preparing the scenography for Shakespeare’s (his favourite author) King Lear for the Stockholm Opera, but the work never opened due to a union dispute.
1988-1990: He exhibited during the Seoul Olympics in Korea. He completed a new mural, 5mx5m, for the Västeras Science Institute in Sweden. He then started working with the San Carlo Gallery in Milan, Italy, which coordinated all of the Italian events. Major exhibitions and retrospectives were held in Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Spain. He created two boxed set albums, containing series of 10 aquatints, Monde Autre et Chamanes (Otherworldliness and Shamans), featuring poems by Michel Perrin.
1991-1993: He went back to working in black and white, completing some very-large-format works. In Murano, in association with the San Carlo Gallery, he created Grands Verres (Large Glasses), a series of large vases and sculptures made of crystal. He painted Kåtan Mimi, an 8x9m Lapp tent, for the town of Arjeplog in Swedish Lapland, intended to host exhibitions.
1994 : He completed a couple of 2m-high painted polyester sculptures, Lui et Elle (Him and Her). He then made a new series of crystal glasses and sculptures in Murano, Italy. He completed Présence (Presence), a new 3.5x2.7m tapestry for the municipality of Timrå, Sweden. He started on the Grands Initiés (Great Insiders) series, all large format and mixed black and white techniques. He finished the strong ink series about Norse gods.
1995 : He moved into a new workshop in Paris. A retrospective was held at the Sundsvall Museum in Sweden, and on that occasion he painted a monumental 700-m² canvass, Le Géant sur la montagne (The Giant on the Mountain), which was hung all summer long on the mountain slope facing the town. He went on to complete a suite of six silkscreen prints on the same theme. Then he inaugurated the Y, a monumental sculpture showing a man with his arms raised in welcome to the Northern country, his silhouette simplified into a Y-shape. This colossus (a 30m-high metal framework covered in projected concrete, weighing 670 tonnes, with an 800-m² surface area covered in 3 tonnes of paint), set at the entrance to Midlanda airport in Sweden, has become the symbol of the North-East region. Lindström then completed Temps Zéro (Zero Time), a watch made for Swatch. One of his works, L’hiver (Winter), made the cover of the first 1996 issue of Telerama, a leading French weekly.
1996 : In association with Sydkraft Sweden, he painted a fresco for the municipality of Örebro on a 17m-high tank with a surface area of 3,000 m², located at the crossroads of major Swedish motorways, by the entrance to the Åbyverket industrial estate. He also created a 3.5m-high Tången sculpture made of painted concrete, which was inaugurated on September 3rd in the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden. The sculpture is located at the entrance to the Ånge industrial estate in Sweden.
1997 : He began working on ceramics in Albisolla, Italy. He also completed a new 30m-high fresco for the town of Örebro, located close to the tank he had painted in 1996 near Åbyverket. The year saw the inauguration of the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre in Sweden, which harbours the collection of the Bengt et Michèle Lindström Foundation, featuring the entire engravings collection (about 800 works), as well as a selection of paintings and sculptures etc. The Arts Centre’s first exhibition focused on religion and mythology in the works of Bengt Lindström. He also completed a lithograph for Ford to mark the launching of the new KA model.
1998-1999: Éditions Bordas in Paris published a series of 36 lithographs for an album of children’s stories written by the artist, Tales of Orren Jarka. This was followed by a new series of engravings, Les Quatre Eléments (The Four Elements). He completed a 4x10m mural in the lobby of the University of Eskilstuna, Sweden. The Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre organised an exhibition, Literature, and Spectacle in the Art of Bengt Lindström. He also completed two monumental frescoes on the Akkats dam and a mural on the power station facing Jokkmokk in Swedish Lapland.
2000 : He painted all of the sides of a semi-articulated lorry for Scania, Sweden’s main truck manufacturer. In Italy, he completed a new series of crystal sculptures with Adriano Bérengo. After that, Racines (Roots), a summer exhibition, was organised at the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre. He finished the Great Prophets, a series of 2x2m oil on canvass works.
2001 : Swiss publisher Ides et Calendes published a small but luxurious monograph, with text by Françoise Monnin. A notebook was also published, Le Visage dans l’Art de Bengt Lindström (Faces in the Art of Bengt Lindström). Les Grands Dieux Ase was chosen to represent Sweden at the Hamburg International Fair in Germany. A special location was set-aside on the forecourt in order to display the semi-articulated lorry painted by Lindström, which had been used to transport the works.
2002 : He completed a substantial series of large blue acrylic paintings, Femmes (Women). The Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre held an exhibition, Drawing in the Art of Bengt Lindström, featuring a selection of sketches, early works from his youth and the Grands Initiés series.
2003 : Bengt fell ill and was unable to paint, but the exhibitions went on.
2004 : Saw the release of the film by Dag Jonzon and Hans Östbom, produced by Dell’arte AB and Östbom Filmbild, about the life of Bengt Lindström. Entitled Lindström - Le Diable de la couleur et de la forme (Lindström – The Colour and Form Devil), the film was produced thanks to support from Film Västernorrland, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland and Sveriges Television. It was broadcast on Swedish television channels. That same year, the Midlanda Contemporary Arts Centre was closed as a result of municipal policy.
2005 : The 6m-high sculpture, Le Loup (The Wolf), made for PEAB, was inaugurated in Botkyrka-Stockholm. The Lindström - The Colour and Form Devil was screened at the Paris Swedish Cultural Centre and released on DVD. The Michele and Bengt Lindström Foundation was donated and transferred to the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden, where a special room was prepared to host Les Grands Dieux Ase.
2006 : Ceramics, created in association with Francis Dellile’s "La Tuilerie" workshop, were completed.
2007 : The Bengt Lindström Collection was inaugurated at the Länsmuseet i Västernorrland in Härnösand, Sweden. He illustrated Sinfonietta för Juliana, a collection of poems by Italian poet and art critic Sebastiano Grasso.
On January 29th, 2008, Bengt Lindström passed away at his home in Sweden.
The first volume presenting the works of Bengt Lindström in the Krimaro Collection was published, featuring over a hundred works from 1950 to 2000.
Selected exhibitions:
Galerie Rive Gauche
Arte Galleria Fanesi, Italy
Art 77, Galerie ABCD, Washington USA
Centre Culturel Montevideo, Uruguay
FIAC
Trevisan Gallery, Canada
Pierre Cardin, New York USA
Opus Gallery, Miami USA
Galeria Arcano, Portugal
Galeria Lucas, Spain
Musée de Brest, France
Lineart Gent, Belgium
Galerie Raab, London
Galerie Bogerd Fine Art, The Nederlands
Galerie Seibu, Japan
Selected representations:
Carnegie Museum of Art
The Centre Pompidou
The Musée d'art Moderne (Paris)
The Louisiana Museum (Denmark)
The Tate (London)
Edmonton Museum, Canada
Aachen Museum, Germany
Musée d´Ostende, Belgium
Musée de Lucerne, Schweitzerland
Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden.
Source: http://www.bengtlindstrom.com
Bengt Lindström naît le 3 septembre 1925 à Storsjökapell, petit village isolé de la province suédoise du Norrland. Son père est Instituteur. Ami des Lapons, il s’intéresse à la culture de leur ethnie ainsi qu'aux légendes et mystères du Grand Nord.
1935-1940 Quitte Storsjökapell pour Härnösand où il poursuit ses études supérieures. Rédige de courtes nouvelles de science-fiction, devient un sportif renommé, commence à peindre.
1944 Obtient le baccalauréat. S’inscrit à l’École d’Art d’Isaac Grünewald, Stockholm, Suède, ancien élève de Matisse, qui devient son protecteur et son professeur.
1945 Étudie le dessin avec Aksel Jörgensen à l’École des Beaux-Arts de Copenhague, Danemark.
1946 Part aux Etats-Unis où il séjourne à Chicago chez sa tante Edith Petersson-Dumas, journaliste. Suit pendant une année les cours du Chicago Art Institut, fréquenté entre autres par Joan Mitchell. Réalisation de ses deux premières lithographies, Méditation et Le modèle étendu.
1947-1948 Arrive en France, à Paris, où il habite une petite chambre louée à la nièce d’André Gide. S’inscrit à l’Atelier Fernand Léger puis à l’Académie André Lhote.
1949 Voyage en Italie, visite Florence et Assise. Fascination pour Giotto et Cimabue.
1950 Obtention d’une bourse du périodique suédois Afton Tidningen qui lui permet de prendre un atelier à Arcueil, France. Période abstraite organique.
1951-1952 S’installe une année dans le sud de la France, près de Saint-Tropez où demeure le philosophe Jean Grenier, ancien professeur de Camus, qui devient son ami.
1955 Reprend le travail de la lithographie et de la gravure qui tient une place très importante dans son oeuvre.
1958 La figuration s’impose avec les Masques, les Dieux et les Monstres.
1960 Fréquente Michaux, Delvaux, Dubuffet, Magritte, mais surtout Asger Jorn, qui devient un ami très proche.
1961 M. Cochrane, directeur de la Tooth Gallery de Londres, achète un grand nombre de ses oeuvres.
1965 Quitte l’atelier d’Arcueil pour s’installer à Savigny-sur-Orge, France.
1968 Réalise une série de 10 lithographies sur la mythologie scandinave.
1969 Réalise une série de pointes-sèches. Début de la collaboration avec la Galerie Protée de Toulouse, France, qui l’expose également à Paris à partir de 1984.
1970 Exécute une grande peinture murale (malheureusement fragmentée et dispersée aux enchères publiques en 1988) pour le restaurant du Grand Hôtel d’Härnösand, Suède.
1971 Exécute deux grandes fresques pour le marché couvert de Nacksta-Sundsvall, Suède, déplacées par mesure de protection en 2001, l’une dans l’aéroport de Midlanda, l’autre dans un collège de la Ville de Sundsvall.
1972 Se lie d’amitié avec Bram Van Velde et Max-Pol Fouchet qui compose un superbe poème épique, Héraclès, devant être mis en scène avec décors et costumes de Bengt Lindström. Un album de gravures Héraclès illustrant ce poème sera édité en 1977.
1973 Partage son temps de travail entre l’atelier de Savigny-sur-Orge et celui de Sundsvall.
1974 Début d’une collaboration de plusieurs années avec la Galerie ABCD, Paris, France, qui assure l’édition exclusive des gravures et encres fortes. Pierre Alechinsky vient travailler l’été dans l’atelier de Sundsvall. Il écrit quelques préfaces de catalogues pour Lindström.
1975 Les Hommes du Nord est la première des grandes tapisseries réalisées. Édite un album sous coffret Eddan, Eddan, Eddan illustrant la mythologie scandinave.
1976 Réalise avec Jacques Putman deux éditions de sculptures en bronze, Les enfants sauvages.
1979 Travaille le verre et réalise trente coupes et plats pour le célèbre verrier suédois Kosta Boda.
1980 Peint une voiture pour Volvo, premier constructeur automobile suédois.
1981 Peint, près de son village natal, de gigantesques bâches de plus de quarante mètres de hauteur couvrant les flancs de la montagne voisine, Våladalen, afin de protester contre la création d’un barrage. Cette action a un énorme retentissement et provoque de vives réactions. Ces bâches ont malheureusement été détruites dans un incendie. Réalise une autre grande fresque à Våladalen.
1982 Crée de petites sculptures en papier mâché peint, Têtes, ainsi que des bijoux en or et en argent.
1983 Expose au Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Stockholm, Suède, sept oeuvres monumentales (3mx2,50 m), Les Grands Dieux Ase, dieux de la mythologie scandinave : Tor, Odin, Frej, Balder, Ymer, Loke et Dieu Inconnu ainsi que des peintures acryliques ayant pour thème les Walkyries. Les Grands Dieux seront abrités dans une chapelle spécialement construite pour eux en 1996 jouxtant le Centre d’Art Contemporain de Midlanda, Suède. Réalise une sculpture monumentale Le Marteau de Tor. La voiture peinte pour Volvo en 1980 devient le marteau tenu par la main gigantesque du Dieu Tor. Cette sculpture exposée jusqu’en 1990 dans le port de Sundsvall est maintenant exposée dans un parc à Östersund, Suède.
1985 Réside en Espagne dans la région d’Alicante où ses amis espagnols lui procurent un nouvel atelier. Il y réalise un album de lithographies, Novelda, accompagné de poèmes du poète espagnol Paco Pastor. Consacre l’été à préparer la scénographie du Roi Lear de Shakespeare, son auteur favori, pour l’Opéra de Stockholm, mais cette oeuvre ne sera pas jouée en raison de litiges syndicaux.
1988 Séoul, Corée, expose durant les Jeux Olympiques. Réalise une nouvelle peinture murale (5 x 5 m) pour l’Institut Scientifique de Västeras, Suède. Début de la collaboration avec la Galerie San Carlo de Milan, Italie, qui coordonne toutes les manifestations italiennes.
1989 L’Italie, la Belgique, le Luxembourg, l’Allemagne, l’Espagne organisent d’importantes expositions et rétrospectives.
1991 Réalise de très grands formats, techniques mixtes en noir et blanc.
1992 Crée, à Murano, en collaboration avec la Galerie, les Grands Verres, grands vases et sculptures en cristal.
1993 Peint une tente lapone (8mx9m) Kåtan Mimi, pour la ville d’Arjeplog en Laponie suédoise, destinée à abriter des expositions.
1994 Réalise deux sculptures en polyester peint de deux mètres de hauteur Lui et Elle.Nouvelle série de verres et de sculptures en cristal réalisée à Murano, Italie. Nouvelle tapisserie, Présence, (3,5 x 2,7 m) pour la commune de Timrå, Suède. Débute la série Les Grands Initiés, très grands formats, techniques mixtes ennoir et blanc. Termine la série des encres fortes ayant pour thème les dieux nordiques.
1995 Installation d’un nouvel atelier à Paris, France. Rétrospective au Musée de Sundsvall, Suède. Peint en cette occasion une toile monumentale de 700 m2, Le géant sur la montagne, accrochée tout l’été sur le flan de la montagne face à la ville. Réalise sur ce thème une suite de six sérigraphies. Inauguration du Y, sculpture monumentale (un homme bras levés signifiant la bienvenue au pays du nord, silhouette simplifiée en Y). Ce colosse (squelette métallique recouvert de béton projeté, hauteur 30m 50, poids total 670 tonnes, surface 800 m2, peinture 3 tonnes) placé à l’entrée de l’aéroport de Midlanda, Suède, qui est devenu le symbole de la région du nord-est. Réalisation d’une montre pour Swatch, Temps Zéro. Une œuvre fait la couverture du premier numéro 1996 de Télérama, premier hebdomadaire français.
1996 Peint pour la commune d’Örebro, Suède, une fresque sur une citerne de 17 mètres de hauteur et d’une surface de 3.000 m2, située à la croisée des grandes autoroutes suédoises, près de l’entrée de la ville dans le site industriel. Création d’une sculpture, Tången, en béton peint (7 tonnes) de 3m 50 dehauteur, inaugurée le 3 septembre en présence de leurs Majestés le Roi et la Reine de Suède. Cette sculpture est placée à l’entrée de la zone industrielle de Ånge, Suède.
1997 Travaille la céramique à Albisolla, Italie. Réalisation d’une nouvelle fresque, pour la ville d’Örebro, de 30 mètres de hauteur, située près de la citerne peinte en 1996. Inauguration du Centre d’Art Contemporain de Midlanda, Suède, qui abrite la collection de la Fondation Bengt et Michèle Lindström, collection comprenant l’ensemble de l’oeuvre gravé, environ 800 oeuvres, et une sélection de peintures, sculptures, etc. La première exposition du Centre d’Art a pour thème La religion et la mythologie dans l’oeuvre de Bengt Lindström. Réalise pour Ford une lithographie pour le lancement de la nouvelle voiture KA.
1998 Éditions Bordas, Paris, France, série de 36 lithographies pour un album de contes pour enfants écrits par l’artiste, Histoires de Orren Jarka. Nouvelle série de gravures, Les quatre éléments. Réalisation d’une peinture murale de 4 x 10 m en Suède, dans le hall d’accueil de l’Université d’Eskilstuna. Exposition au Centre d’Art Contemporain de Midlanda, Suède, Littérature et spectacle dans l’art de Bengt Lindström.
1999 Réalisation de trois fresques monumentales sur le barrage et d’une peinture murale sur la centrale électrique de Akkats en Laponie suédoise, près de Jokkmokk.
2000 Peint toutes les faces d’un poids lourd remorque pour Scania, principal constructeur suédois. Réalise en Italie, avec Adriano Bérengo, une nouvelle série de sculptures en cristal. Exposition d’été, Racines, au Centre d’Art Contemporain de Midlanda, Suède. Termine la série Les Grands Prophètes, huiles sur toiles de 2 x 2 m.
2001 Ides et Calendes, édition suisse publie une petite mais luxueuse monographie avec un texte de Françoise Monnin. Publication d’un cahier Le visage dans l’art de Bengt Lindström. Les Grands Dieux Ase représentent la Suède à la Foire Internationale de Hambourg, Allemagne. Une place de faveur a été réservée sur un parvis afin de présenter le poids lourd peint par Lindström, qui a transporté les oeuvres.
2002 Réalise une série de grands dessins à la peinture acrylique bleue, Femmes. Exposition Le dessin dans l’art de Bengt Lindström au Centre d’Art Contemporain de Midlanda, Suède, avec une sélection de dessins, des oeuvres de jeunesse et la série Les Grands Initiés.
2003 Bengt est atteint d’une maladie qui le prive de ses capacités à peindre mais les expositions continuent.
2004 Le film de Dag Jonzon et Hans Östbom, produit par Dell’arte AB et Östbom Filmbild sur la vie de Bengt Lindström (Lindström - Le Diable de la couleur et de la forme) est monté grâce au soutien de Film Västernorrland, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland et de Sveriges Television : le film est présenté sur les chaînes de la télévision suédoise. Le Centre d’Art Contemporain de Midlanda ferme pour des raisons de politique communale.
2005 La sculpture de six mètres de hauteur, Le loup, réalisée pour PEAB est inaugurée à Botkyrka-Stockholm. Le film Lindström - Le diable de la couleur et de la forme est montré au Centre Culturel Suédois de Paris et présenté en DVD. La collection de la Fondation Michèle et Bengt Lindström est transférée en donation au Länsmuseet Västernorrland, à Härnösand, Suède où une salle spéciale est aménagée pour recevoir les Grands Dieux Ase.
2006 Réalisation des céramiques crées en collaboration avec l’atelier ”La Tuilerie” de Francis Delille en France.
2007 Inauguration de la Collection Bengt Lindström au Länsmuseet Västernorrland, à Härnösand, Suède. Illustration d’un recueil de poèmes Sinfonietta för Juliana de Sébastiano Grasso, poète et critique d’art italien.
2008 Bengt Lindström s'éteint en son domicile suédois le 29 janvier.
2008 Édition du premier tome présentant les œuvres de Bengt Lindström de la Collection Krimaro qui rassemble des oeuvres de 1950 à 2000.
Source: http://www.bengtlindstrom.com
Bengt Lindström är en av våra mest internationellt kända konstnärer. Han är född den 3 september 1925 i Storsjökapell, i en isolerad by i den svenska provinsen Norrland. Det är i detta stora, brutala, mytiska landskap av berg, med glittrande sjöar och djupa skogar, och det är i detta Lappland som Bengt kommer att växa upp. Hans pappa är lärare. Han är vän med samerna och intresserad av deras etniska kulturarv. Endast tre dagar gammal blev Bengt jorddragen, av sin gudfader Kroik lappkungen, Bengt Lindström blev dragen genom en trolldoms hål i en skogsbacke och genom detta så fick styrka och kraft. Samerna var också skogshuggare och de kom att vandra i skogar och Bengt fick följa med Kroik som då kom att berätta för honom om legender och mysterier långt norrifrån.
1935-1944 : Lämnar Storsjökapell till Härnösand där han fortsatte sin forskarutbildning. Skriver detektivnoveller, blir en berömd idrottsman och börjar måla.
1944-1945 : Tar studentexamen. Inskriven på Isaac Grünewalds Konstakademi, Stockholm, en före detta elev till Matisse, som blir hans beskyddare och lärare. Studerar teckning med Aksel Jörgensen på Konstakademi i Köpenhamn, Danmark. Åker till USA där han bor i Chicago hos sin faster Edith Petersson-Dumas, journalist. Inskrivna ett år på Chicago Art Institut, deltar bland andra med Joan Mitchell. Där han utför sina två första litografier, Begrundan och Liggande modellen.
1946-1949 : Anlände i Frankrike, till Paris, där han bor i ett hyrt litet rum hos André Gides brordotter. Inskriven på Ateljé Fernand Léger och på Andre Lhotes Akademi. Resa till Italien, besöker Florens och Assisi. Kom att fascineras av Giotto och Cimabue.
1950-1952 : Får ett stipendium från den svenska tidning, Aftontidning. Kom att bosätta sig, ett par år, i södra Frankrike, nära Saint-Tropez, där filosofen Jean Grenier bor, Camus professor, som blir hans vän. Skapar mosaik.
1955 : Återgår till litografin och etsnings arbete, vilket har en mycket viktig plats i hans konst. Ställer ut i Paris och i Sverige. Ateljé i Arcueil, Frankrike.
1958-1960 : Startar samarbetet med Galleri Rive Gauche, Paris, Frankrike Träffar Michaux, Delvaux, Dubuffet, Magritte, och speciellt Asger Jorn som blir en nära vän.
1961-1965 : Mr Cochrane, chef för Tooth Gallery i London, köper många av hans verk. Hans konstnärliga arbeten kommer nu att kretsa kring masker, gudar, monster och gnomer, ett motiv val som han sedan behåller för resten av sin konstnärliga gärning. Flyttar från Arcueil till Savigny-sur-Orge, Frankrike.
1968 : Skapar en serie om 10 litografier med teman av den skandinaviska mytologin och ställer ut hos Galleri Ariel, Paris, Frankrike.
1969 : Skapar en serie av torrnålsgravyr, Änglar och Demoner. Startar samarbetet med Galleri Protée i Toulouse, Frankrike, som ställde ut honom i Paris, Galleri Protée II, från 1984.
1970 : Skapar en stor väggmålning (tyvärr splittrade och utspridda på offentlig auktion i 1988) till restaurangen Grand Hotel Härnösand, Sverige.
1971 : Skapar två stora väggmålningar, Cirkus folk, för Mitt Hem på saluhallen i Nacksta-Sundsvall, Sverige, som flyttas 2001, en till flygplatsen i Midlanda, den andra på en skola i Sundsvall, Sverige.
1972 : Blir vän med Bram van Velde och Max-Pol Fouchet som skapar en stor episk dikt, Herakles, vara iscensatt med scenografi och kostym av Bengt Lindström. Ett album med gravyrer, Herakles, med denna dikt som kom att publiceras 1977.
1973-1974 : Delar sin tid mellan Savigny-sur-Orge ateljé och Sundsvalls ateljé. Börjar ett flerårigt samarbete med ABCD Gallery, Paris, Frankrike. Pierre Alechinsky delar ateljén på sommaren i Sundsvall. Han kom även att skriva några förord för utställningskataloger till Lindström.
1975-1976 : Män från norr är hans första stora gobeläng som skapas. Skapar ett album Eddan, Eddan, Eddan om den skandinaviska mytologin och två upplagor av bronsskulpturer, Vilda barn.
1979-1980 : Skapar och tillverkar glas skålar och fat för det berömda Kosta Boda. Målar en bil för Volvo.
1981-1982 : Målar, i naturen i närheten av hans hemby, på stora presenningar, över fyrtio meter hög, som täcker sluttningarna av det närliggande berget i Vålådalen för att protestera mot skapandet av en damm. Denna åtgärd har en enorm inverkan, vilket leder till starka reaktioner. Dessa presenningar har tyvärr förstörts i en brand. Skapar en stor fresk i Vålådalen. Skapar små skulpturer gjorda i papier-maché som bemålas, samt guld och silversmycken.
1983 : Ställer ut på Historiska i Stockholm, Sverige, med monumentala Verk, 2 x 3,50 m, Asagudar från den nordiska mytologiskas: Tor, Oden, Freja, Balder, Ymer, Loke och Okänd Gud samt akrylmålningar med temat Valkyrior. Asagudarna kom senare att inrymmas i en särskilt avdelning som anlades för dem, år 1996, på Midlanda Konsthall, Sverige. Skapar en monumental skulptur Tors hammare : bilen målade för Volvo i 1980 inkluderar hammaren som visas i den gigantiska gud Tors hand. Denna skulptur visas fram till 1990 i hamnen i Sundsvall är nu placerad i en park i Östersund.
1985 : Målar i Spanien vid Alicante där hans vänner skaffar honom en ny ateljé. Där skapar han ett album med litografier, Novelda, med dikter av den spanska poeten Paco Pastor. Tillbringar sommaren i förberedelse för iscensättning av Kung Lear, Shakespeare som är hans favorit författare, för Stockholmsoperan, men detta kommer inte spelas på grund av interna arbetskonflikter.
1988 : Seoul, Korea, ställer ut under OS. Same Landskapp är den nya väggmålningen, 5mx5m, till de Vetenskapliga Institut i Västerås, Sverige. Börjar samarbete med San Carlo Gallery i Milano, Italien, som samordnar alla händelser i Italien. Skapar två album, Annan värld och
1989-1994 : Stora utställningar samt retrospektiva i Italien, Belgien, Luxemburg, Tyskland, Spanien och Frankrike. Skapar i mycket stort format, blandteknik i svart och vitt. Lämnar Savigny-sur-Orge för en ny ateljé i Fontenay-sous-Bois. Skapar i glas i Murano, samarbete med San Carlo Galleri, stora vaser och skulpturer i kristall. Målar ett lapptält (8mx9m), Kåtan Mimmi, för staden Arjeplog i svenska Lappland, som blir en utställnings lokal. Skapar två skulpturer i polyester, två meter hög, Han och Hon. Ny serie av glas och skulpturer kristall skapas i Murano, Italien. Närvaro, ny gobeläng, 3m50x2m70 till Timrå kommun. Börjar serien De stora profeterna, i blandteknik svart och vitt. Avslutar serien av stora djuptryck med temat gudarna.
1995 : Installera sig i en ny ateljé i Paris, Frankrike. Retrospektiv utställning på Sundsvalls museum. Målar då även en monumental duk, 70 m2, Jätten på berget, som kom att hänga hela sommaren på den sida av berget som vetter mot staden. På detta tema skapas även en serie om sex serigrafier. Invigning av Y:et, monumental skulptur av en man med armarna uppsträckta för att välkomna besökare till västernorrland, skulpturen tar sig formen av ett Y som är en symbol för Y:län. Denna jätte (ett metallskelett täckt med sprutbetong, höjd 30,5 meter, totalvikt 670 ton, yta 800 m2, 3 ton färg) står vid ingången till Midlandas flygplats, har blivit symbolen för trakten. Skapar en klocka för Swatch, Noll tid. Ett verk för omslaget av första numret för året 1996 av Telerama, den största franska veckotidningen, Vintern.
1996 : Skapar för Örebro kommun, en utomhusmålning på en cistern, 17 meter hög, yta 3000 m2, beläget vid korsningen av de största huvudlederna i Sverige, nära ingången till staden i industriområde. Skapar en målad betong skulptur, Tången, 7 ton, 3,5m invigdes den 3 september i närvaro av Sveriges Majestäter Konungen och Drottningen. Denna skulptur är placerad vid industriområdets ingång i Ånge.
1997 : Arbetar med keramiska verk i Albisolla, Italien. Midlanda Konsthalls invigning, som rymmer Stiftelsen Michèle och Bengt Lindströms samling av alla grafiska verk och ett urval av målningar, skulpturer, mm. Den första utställningen på Midanda konsthall har som temat Religion och mytologi i Bengt Lindströms konst. Skapar till Ford en litografi för lanseringen av den nya bilen KA.
1998 : Hos Editions Bordas, Paris, Frankrike, en serie av 36 litografier för ett album med barnsagor, berättelser skrivna av konstnären, Sagor från Orren Jarka. Ny serie gravyrer, De fyra elementen. Skapar en väggmålning, 4mx10m, i lobbyn på universitetet i Eskilstuna. Utställning på Midanda konsthall, Litteratur och skådespel i Bengt Lindströms konst.
1999 : Skapar tre monumentala väggmålningar på en damm och ett på kraftverket i svenska Lappland nära Jokkmokk, med hans vän, Lars Pirak same konstnär.
2000 : Målar alla sidor av en lastbil till Scania, den ledande svenska lastbilstillverkaren. Utför i Italien hos Adriano Berengo en ny serie skulpturer i kristall. Rötter blir sommarens utställning på Midanda konsthall. Avslutar serien De stora profeterna, olja på duk 2mx2m.
2001 : Ides och Calendes, schweiziska utgåva, utgiven en liten men lyxig monografi med en text av Françoise Monnin. Publiceringen av boken Ansikten i Bengt Lindströms konst. Asagudarna representerar Sverige vid den internationella mässan i Hamburg, Tyskland. Där visas även lastbilen målad av Lindström.
2002 : Skapar ett brett utbud av stora målningar i blå akrylfärg, Kvinnor. Teckningen i Bengt Lindströms konst på Midanda Konsthall, med ett urval av teckningar, tidiga verk och serien av målningarna från Den stora invigningen.
2003 : Bengt drabbas av en stroke som berövar honom hans förmåga att måla, men fortsätter att ställa ut.
2004 : Dag Jonzon och Hans Östboms film, som produceras av Dell'arte AB och Östbom Filmbild, Lindström , En jävel på färg och form, i samarbete med stöd från Film Västernorrland, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland och Sveriges TV. Filmen visas i svensk television. Midanda Konsthall läggs ner sin verksamhet på grund av ett lokal politiskt beslut.
2005 : Skulptur Vargen, sex meter hög skapad för Peab, invigdes i Botkyrka-Stockholm. Filmen Lindström, En jävel på färg och form, visas på Svenska Kultural Center i Paris och presenteras som DVD. Samlingen Michèle och Bengt Lindströms stiftelse överför sin donation till Länsmuseet i Västernorrland, Härnösand. Där ett särskilt rum ordnas för Asagudarna.
2006-2007 : Genomförande av keramik som skapades under 2001 i samarbete med ateljén La Tuilerie och Francis Delille i Frankrike. Invigningen för Bengt Lindströms samling på Västernorrland Länsmuseet, Härnösand. Illustration av Sebastiano Grassos dikter samling, Sinfonietta för Juliana, Italiensk poet och konstkritiker.
2008 : Bengt Lindström dör i sitt hem i Sundsvall den 29 januari.
2008 : Utkommer en boken som presenterar Bengt Lindströms verk i Krimaro Foundation.
2008- 2011 : Utställningar som visar Bengt Lindströms konst i hela Europa.
Utställningar
Första separatutställning i Sverige år 1954 på Gummessons konstsalong.
Galleri Sinklar.
Plus ett hundratal världen över.
Source: http://www.bengtlindstrom.com

Blue Dance

Habit Rouge - Röda Jackan (Executed in 1966)

Composition (Executed in 1970's)

Composition

Figurkomposition

Composition

Figurkomposition

"y:et" Polykrom. Mindre Modell Av Skulptur På Trafikplats Midlanda

Jägarna

Vilande Figur Med Luta (1955)

Dialogue Nocturne (1988)

Tänkaren – Le Penseur

Djurvännen - L’ami Des Bêtes

Blå Kamp – Le Combat Bleu

La Fille De Joie

(2) "djurens Vän", "kvinna Med Blå Rock"

Eddan. Suite Of 15 Color Lithographs (1975)

Komposition I Rött

Vintrigt Landskap Med Vattendrag

Aniskte Med Hund

Rictus

Poeten (Executed 1969)

Kvinna Som Tittar Tillbaka (Executed 1975)

Trolldom (Executed 1965)

Inspiration (Executed 1976)

Vas, Kosta -82 (-82)

Le Vieux, Den Gamle (Executed 1993)

Schamans Trans (1992)

Kärlek I Mars (Executed 1967)

Kvinnlig Akt

Untitled

Komposition

Rendez-vous I Värmen

Utsikt Från Konstnärens Ateljé I Paris (1947)

Otukten, Ur Sviten, De Sju Dödssynderna

Komposition

Fruktstilleben I Interiör

Téte De Montagnard

Den Röda Iguanen

Jakt På Natt

Rött Lejon (-62)

Motiv Från Italien (1953)

Eddan, Svit Med 15 Färglitografier (1975)

Héraklès, Komplett Portfölj Med 12 Färgcarborundum (1977)

(3) Studier

Komposition Med Ansikten

Ansikte

Ansikte
Komposition I Vitt (1958)

Mannen Från Annat Land
Stadsvy

Röd Mask
Komposition (1952)

Kvinnoansikte
Komposition (1957)

Ansikte I Profil

Komposition
Komposition

Spanska Dansen
Komposition

Komposition

Komposition
Figurkomposition
Figurkomposition

Katten

Tveksam Gul Man

överfall

Otukten, Girigheten, Frosseriet

Omfamning

Baskervilles Hund

Grön Man

Ansikte

Vitansiktet

Nattlig Besökare

Vikingafest
Figurkomposition
Höga Kusten

Figurkomposition
Boxaren (1994)
Fågelmannen (ca 1969)
Freds Porträtt (ca 1988)
Förfader (1994)
Glupskhet (1975)

Figurer
Komposition

Geniet
Ansikte Med Röd Näsa (1999)
Komposition. Epreuve D’artiste

Julen I Arjeplog

Röd Figur (1967)

Polykrom Figur
