Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) was a modernist at heart. Born in Stockholm, she grew up in Norway, where she moved with her mother after her parents divorced. The art world was in Paris, however, and so she went there in 1929, at 20, and that same year met and married Hans Hartung, the German abstract expressionist. The marriage lasted only eight years; but almost 20 years later, in 1957, the couple remarried. Bergman saw harmony as a structural element of painting, and brought materials such as gold leaf, metal foil, and silver leaf to the canvas. She was powerfully influenced by Scandinavian nature and Nordic light, and developed a vocabulary of pure forms, nascently abstract. Stone, stars, earth, snow, water, she created her own cosmos. This is New York’s first Bergman survey. —Elena Clavarino