Thorvald Hellesen: Pioneering Cubism

This fully illustrated and exhaustive volume presents Thorvald Hellesen’s interactions with Orphism, Crystal Cubism and Mechanical Cubism. Text in English and Norwegian.

"Colour orgies […] slung up on the walls." This was just one of many caustic remarks aimed at Thorvald Hellesen’s first – and last – exhibition in Norway, held in 1919. He would never again exhibit in his native country, where he was gradually forgotten.

In Paris, Hellesen became part of the Cubist circle in Montparnasse. H...