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Item Ships From: Sweden
A Northern Vision in Miniature
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisitely detailed drawing by Swedish artist Oscar Lycke captures a rustic settlement nestled in the golden highlands of northern Sweden, most likely depicting the traditional...
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1910s Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Blue Mountains, New Mexico
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this luminous landscape study, Carl Oscar Borg captures the serene beauty of the New Mexican high desert, likely looking toward Mount Taylor, a sacred peak that rises above the su...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Young Woman in Hat, 1905
Located in Stockholm, SE
This early portrait by Almar Bech showcases the artist’s mastery of charcoal and gouache on paper. The artist uses charcoal to establish strong outlines and soft shading, lending the...
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Early 1900s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Late Autumn, Beautiful Small Landscape Watercolor by Fanny Hjelm
Located in Stockholm, SE
This enchanting watercolor, measuring a mere 4.5 x 8 cm, offers a glimpse into the beauty of a serene autumn landscape overlooking Lake Möckeln, nestled between the municipalities of Degerfors and Karlskoga in the province of Värmland, Sweden.
In this picturesque scene, the horizon reveals the serene outline of the distant shoreline, adorned with several small islands. The tranquil waters mirror the reflection of the trees on the land, creating a harmonious and captivating play of colors. In the foreground, a solitary birch tree stands tall, adding depth and perspective to this miniature watercolor.
The level of precision achieved within this tiny format is truly remarkable, showcasing Fanny Hjelm...
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1920s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Summer Landscape near Sundsvall, 1911
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this radiant drawing from 1911, Swedish artist Oskar Lycke captures the quiet grandeur of a summer landscape near Sundsvall in northern Sweden. The view stretches across a serene ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink
Valley View with Pines and Distant Peaks, Sierra Nevada (Possibly Yosemite)
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
This luminous gouache captures a majestic mountain vista, likely set in California’s Sierra Nevada (possibly Yosemite). Two broad granite peaks with sunlit faces dominate the backgro...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Drawing from Hagbynäs Sweden, 1779
Located in Stockholm, SE
Jonas Carl Linnerhielm (1758–1829)
Hagbynäs
Dated and titled “1779 in Aug. Vid Hagbynäs”
Red chalk on paper
21.3 × 33.4 cm (8.4 × 13.1 in.)
with frame 40.5 x 51 cm (15 ⁷/⁸ x 20 ⅛ i...
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1770s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
View from Strandvägen towards Djurgården, Stockholm
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ferdinand Boberg (1860–1946)
View from Strandvägen towards Djurgården, Stockholm
Watercolor on paper
signed BOBERG - STOCKHOLM -
c. 16 x 22 cm (6 ¼ x 8 ¾ in)
framed 33 x 38 cm (13 ...
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1920s Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
SF 89-153.
By Sam Francis
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 67 x 51 cm.
Frame size: 112 x 97 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Archive number SF 89-153 in the Sam Francis Foundation.
Stamped with the Sam Francis Estate logo and stamped signature on verso.
Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire.
Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre.
The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings.
The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking.
Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work.
Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art.
He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia.
He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994.
Sam Francis’s first...
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1980s Contemporary Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$102,090
Portrait Gustav Wilhelm Palm - 19th Century Pencil and Pastel on Paper
Located in Stockholm, SE
Portrait of Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890) by Lorenz Frølich (1820-1908)
Signed with monogram and dated May 1849. Pencil and pastel on paper. 29.5 × 21 cm.
This portrait of the Swed...
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1840s Naturalistic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Carbon Pencil
Allegory of Summer - 17th Century Italian Sepia and Watercolor Drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
A fine Italian watercolor and sepia drawing, an allegory of summer. People harvesting, eating and drinking in a hilly landscape, probably by Antonio Grano (c.1669-1718). In the fron...
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Late 17th Century Italian School Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
An Old Military Road, The Road over Dovrefjell, Norway
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Oscar Borg (1879–1947)
An Old Military Road, The Road over Dovrefjell, Norway
gouache on paper, ca. 1900
signed
sheet 12.5 cm x 17.5 (4.9 x 6.9 in)
framed 23 × 28 cm (9 × 11...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Goats and Sheep in Various Poses, Cairo (c. 1871)
Located in Stockholm, SE
This study presents multiple views of goats and sheep drawn across a single sheet. Lundgren depicts the animals in different poses – a light-colored goat standing in profile, a dark ...
Category
1870s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Beneath the Birch Drawing by Swedish Artist Christian Berg (1893–1976)
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are proud to present an exquisite drawing by the renowned artist Christian Berg (1893-1976), executed around the 1920s. This captivating artwork port...
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1920s Naturalistic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Scandinavian Sunset Watercolor from 1897
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hilding Werner (1880–1944) Sweden
Solnedgång (Sunset), 1897
watercolour on paper
signed and dated lower left H. Werner 1897
Inscribed Solnedgång (“Sunset”) on the reverse.
the shee...
Category
1890s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rowing Figure in an Eerie Landscape, 1929
Located in Stockholm, SE
Rowing Figure in an Eerie Landscape is a 1929 watercolor-and-ink illustration by Swedish artist Einar Norelius. Created for the 22nd issue of Bland tomtar och troll, the cherished an...
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1920s Symbolist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Resting Dromedar, 1861
Located in Stockholm, SE
Egron Sellif Lundgren (1815–1875) Sweden
Resting Dromedar, 1861
watercolour heightened with white
unframed 21 x 29.2 cm (8 ¼ x 11 ½ in.)
framed 40 x 48 cm (15 ¾ x 18 ⅞ in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 12 December 1894, lot 42;
Signe and Ernst Trygger (1857–1943), Villa Trygger, Stockholm. Ernst Trygger was Swedish Prime Minister (1923–24), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1928–30) and University Chancellor (1926–37); A Swedish private collection.
Literature:
Förteckning på oljemålningar, aquareller och handteckningar m.m. av Egron Lundgren utställda i Akademien för de fria konsterna, 1876, no. 259.
Karl Asplund, Egron Lundgren, Vol. II, 1940, p. 40, note 1, p. 166.
Exhibited:
The Royal Academy, Egron Lundgren, 10 April 1876, no. 259.
Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Memorial Exhibition, February 1915, no. 70, Hvilande kameler (owner Ernst Trygger).
The Royal Academy, Svenska Akvareller (Swedish Watercolor Exhibition), 1925, no. 224, Vilande kameler (owner Signe Trygger).
Essay:
This delicate watercolour, executed during Lundgren’s first journey to Egypt in the winter of 1861–62, depicts a resting dromedary in the shade at Giza. Painted in transparent washes with touches of white gouache, the work captures the intense desert light and atmosphere with a remarkable immediacy. The reclining animal dominates the composition, rendered in warm ochres and browns against a cool, shadowy background, while highlights on its saddle and coat give the scene a subtle radiance. The quiet stillness of the subject reflects Lundgren’s sensitivity to the everyday motifs of the Orient, which he observed and painted directly on site.
Lundgren travelled to Egypt in the company of two British artists, Frank Dillon (1823-1909) and George Price Boyce...
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1860s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Profile Portrait of Sitting Woman by Window - Charcoal and Opaque White 1910´s
Located in Stockholm, SE
A finely tuned oval drawing by the Finnish artist Ester Helenius depicting a young woman in profile seated on a chair. The room is suggested only by a diffuse background. Signed and ...
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1910s Jugendstil Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Positano Village - Sepia Drawing 1920´s
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rare ink and watercolor drawing by Carl Palme, dated 1921 and signed “CP 21,” captures the intimate character of Positano’s narrow alleys. Measuring ca. 20 x 24 cm without frame. Inscribed on the back that it´s a preparatory study for a larger oil painting. Early 20th century works by Palme are scarce.
Carl Palme (1879–1960): Painter, Printmaker, and Cosmopolitan Artist.
He was born in Stockholm in 1879, the son of bank director Henrik Palme and Anna Lavonius. He grew up on the family estate of Svalnäs, now a guest home and senior residence. From an early age, Palme showed a sensitivity to both literature and art, interests that would later merge in his career as painter, draftsman, printmaker, and author.
His artistic education began in London at the Slade School of Fine Art (1900–1901), where he was introduced to modern European currents. From 1902 to 1904, he studied in Munich at Wassily Kandinsky’s art school, absorbing early expressions of color and form. In 1907, Palme moved to Paris, where he became the first Swedish student of Henri Matisse. Together with fellow Scandinavian artists, he was instrumental in founding the Académie Matisse, a collective of young painters who rented a large studio in Paris. Matisse himself visited weekly, critiquing their work and shaping what would later become a decisive wave of modernism in Swedish art. Among the group were such notable names as Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, and Einar Jolin...
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1920s Other Art Style Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Barns Buildings at Ruds Säteri, Värmland, Sweden, 1900
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hilding Werner (1880-1944) Sweden
Barns Buildings at Ruds Säteri, 1900
watercolor on paper
unframed 21.5 x 31 cm (8.46 x 12.2 inches)
framed 22 x 40 cm (8.66 x 15.75 inches)
...
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Early 1900s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
St Eriksbron Seen From Stadshagen, Stockholm, 1908
Located in Stockholm, SE
This enchanting painting by Arvid Jacobsson (Jacobson)(1881–1966), executed in 1908, offers a captivating view of St. Eriksbron as seen from Stadshagen on Kungsholmen. Jacobsson has ...
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Early 1900s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Study of a horse lying on its right side seen from the front
By Adam Frans van der Meulen
Located in Stockholm, SE
Provenance:
Jean-Marc Du Pan (1785–1838), Geneva (L. 1440), passed to his brother
Alexandre-Louis Du Pan (1787–1846);
his sale, Geneva, March 26–28, 1840, included in lots 913–917;
...
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17th Century Old Masters Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890) Sweden
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
pencil and watercolour
unframed: 23.6 x 29.2 cm (9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in)
framed: 40 x 45 cm...
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1840s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Yellow Rose, 1917. Painted on an Envelope
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are thrilled to present a watercolor by the Swedish artist Olle Hjortzberg. This small yet exquisite piece, painted in 1917, portrays a solitary yellow rose in vibrant, delicate s...
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1910s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor The Garden at Sickelsjö, 1883
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to present a stunning watercolor by the Swedish artist Albert Theodor Gellerstedt. This artwork, titled "Sickelsjö Trädgård" was created on June 8, 1883. The paintin...
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1880s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Moonlight Scene in Venice with Gondola - Watercolor 1920´s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Watercolor painting depicting a nocturnal scene of Venice, featuring a gondola gliding slowly through the water under a full moon, by Karl Bergquist. Signed and dated "K Bergquist Ve...
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1920s Other Art Style Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Tailor Working at his Desk
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gerhard Ludwig Lahde (Bremen 1765–1833 Köpenhamn)
A Tailor Working at his Desk
Ink and wash on paper, mounted on a 19th-century backing inscribed “G. L. Lahde del.”
unframed: 14.2 ...
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Early 19th Century Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Evening Glow by the River, 1917
Located in Stockholm, SE
This evocative pastel painting by Victor Jernbergh, dated 1917, captures the serene and enchanting scene of a river at dusk. The central composition is dominated by a lone pine tree ...
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1910s Symbolist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait of a French Gentleman By Portrait Miniature Artist Daniel Saint
By Daniel Saint
Located in Stockholm, SE
Daniel Saint was a prominent French miniaturist who lived between 1778 and 1847. Born in Paris, Saint was the son of a jeweler and initially began his career as an apprentice in his father's workshop. However, he soon discovered his passion for painting and turned his attention to miniatures, which were highly popular in 18th and 19th-century Europe.
Saint was a highly skilled artist and quickly gained a reputation for his miniature portraits, which were characterized by their delicate detail and fine brushwork. His works often featured prominent figures from French society, including members of the royal family and high-ranking officials. He also painted portraits of wealthy patrons, many of whom commissioned him to create highly personalized works.
Saint's style was highly influenced by the neoclassical movement, which emphasized clarity, simplicity, and rationality. He often used a limited color palette, focusing on soft pastels and muted tones, which helped to accentuate the delicate features of his subjects. His compositions were typically centered around the face, with little background or context to distract from the subject.
Despite his success as a miniaturist, Saint was not immune to the changing tastes of the art world. In the mid-19th century, photography began to gain popularity, and many artists who specialized in portraiture found themselves struggling to compete with the speed and accuracy of this new medium. However, Saint continued to work and develop his craft, adapting his style to the changing tastes of his clients and experimenting with new techniques and materials.
In addition to his work as a miniaturist, Saint was also a skilled draftsman and created a number of highly detailed and intricate drawings and sketches. He was also known for his use of unconventional materials, such as hair, which he would incorporate into his miniature portraits to add texture and depth.
Today, Saint's works are highly prized by collectors and are held in museums and private collections around the world. His legacy as a master of miniature portraiture lives on, and his influence can still be seen in the work of contemporary artists who specialize in this unique and challenging medium.
More information:
Artist: Daniel Saint (1778-1847) France
Title: Portrait of a French Gentleman...
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Early 19th Century Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Two Mandarin Ducks, Circle of Sunqua, Gouache on Pith Paper, Qing Dynasty
By Sunqua
Located in Stockholm, SE
Circle of Sunqua (active 1830-1870)
Two Mandarin Ducks
pith paper (rice paper)
gouache
c.1830-1870 China
Also close to: Chincqua, Lam Qua, Youqua.
Compare ...
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19th Century Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Rice Paper
Composition with Reading Girl by an Unknown Artist, Ink on Paper, Dated 1922
Located in Stockholm, SE
Unknown Swedish Artist
Composition with Reading Girl
inkl on paper
indistinctly signed and dated Eric Eric SON? 1922
frame included
Category
1920s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$810 Sale Price
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Silent Winter Landscape with Snow-Laden Trees
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ferdinand Boberg (1860–1946)
Snow-Laden Trees
Ink and watercolor with black framing lines on cardboard
signed BOBERG.
18 x 13 cm (approx. 7.1 x 5.1 in)
frame: 40.5 x 35 cm (approx....
Category
1920s Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Pencil
coastal landscape, bohuskusten, c. 1920s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Watercolor on paper
signed Axel Hilleström
unframed 39.5 x 72 cm (15.6 x 28.3 in)
framed 50 x 83 cm (19.7 x 32.7 in)
This expansive watercolor depicts a sandy shoreline along the Sw...
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1920s Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
West Coast Archipelago Watercolor on Paper, Signed, Circa 1910-1920
Located in Stockholm, SE
Axel Hilleström (1874–1959 Sweden
West Coast Archipelago, Sweden, c. 1910–1920
Watercolor on paper
signed Axel Hilleström
unframed 37.5 x 62 cm (14.8 x 24.4 in)
framed 51 x 75.5 cm...
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1910s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Archipelago Landscape With Sailboats, Watercolor on Paper, 1909
Located in Stockholm, SE
Axel Hilleström (1874–1959) Sweden
Archipelago Landscape With Sailboats, 1909
Watercolor on paper
unframed 20.5 x 55 cm (8.1 x 21.7 in)
framed 31 x 66 cm (12.2 x 26 in)
This atmos...
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Early 1900s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rococo portrait Nude lady in Royal mantle Early 20th century Pastel drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
The drawing perfectly conveys the individual originality of the character of the king's favorite with a lively mind and a kind heart, as evidenced by the royal mantle thrown over the naked body from above. The grace of the pose and the cold courtesy of the lady's smile indirectly reflected her playful temperament and refined coquetry. The drawing is built on the harmony of colors used by the artist. By an unidentified professional painter, vintage pastel drawing...
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Early 20th Century Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Pastel
Foot Musik.
By Roberto Matta
Located in Malmo, SE
Pastel, gouache and coffee on paper.
Artwork size: 58 x 56 cm.
Frame size: 78 x 76 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Archive number (P90/37)
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom.
Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others.
Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings.
Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander.
In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
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1990s Abstract Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait of a Young Man with Beret, 1896
Located in Stockholm, SE
Karl Johan Holter (Norway, 1870–1960)
Young Man with Beret, 1896
chalk and white heightening on paper, paper mounted on board
approx. 58 × 39 cm (unframed) / 22.8 × 15.4 in
signed ...
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1890s Symbolist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Board, Laid Paper, Pencil
Draught Players Large Interior Genre Scene 19 century Irish Watercolor Painting
By Erskine Nicol RSA ARA
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting is titled “Paddy’s Dilemma" by Erskine Nicol (Erskine Nicol RSA ARA, 1825 – 1904), Irishman. Detailed and richly decorated in objects picture of a cozy interior takes us str...
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Late 19th Century Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Rococo portrait Nude lady in Royal mantle Early 20th century Pastel drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
A lady with a porcelain-delicate toasty face, enchants with playful and refined coquetry. The lively movability of the artist's stroke conveys with all tangibility the reflections and the play of light on the surface of the blue satin, and the airiness of the underwear. The professionalism of this work captures with its imagination, grace and harmony of colors. By an unidentified professional painter, vintage pastel drawing...
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Early 20th Century Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Pastel
Hommage á Léger
By Erró
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 47×38 cm
Frame size: 62,5 x 51,5 cm
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Signed and dated on the verso.
“I paint because painting is a private ...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$11,410
A Rocky Shore at Night, Full Moon
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gustaf Fjæstad (Fjaestad) (1868–1948) Sweden
A Rocky Shore at Night, Full Moon
Signed “G. F.”
Authenticated on the reverse by Bo Fjæstad (1903–1991), the artist’s son
pencil on pap...
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Early 1900s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Impressionistic Portrait of the Equestrian Artist Baptista Schreiber - Drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
This expressive and atmospheric graphite drawing by Gösta von Hennigs (1866–1941) portrays the celebrated equestrian artist Baptista Schreiber within the charged setting of a circus ...
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1910s Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Abyssinien Ostrich Feather Merchant in Aden
Located in Stockholm, SE
Lundgren visited Aden as a passenger on board the steam ship ”Bengal” on his way from England to India during the winter 1857. The previous year an uprising had broken out in India, ...
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1850s Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gathered by the Easter Fire, Dalsland
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rare and atmospheric work from Carl Oscar Borg’s early years in Sweden, this evocative gouache captures the tradition of Easter fires (påskeldar) in the rural region of Dalsland. A...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Arizona Landscape – Dramatic Skies and Desert Light by Carl Oscar Borg
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this expressive gouache study, Carl Oscar Borg captures the dramatic sweep of the Arizona highlands, where storm clouds gather over layered mesas and valleys bathed in shifting li...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sleeping Youth, 1895 – Early Academic Study by Paul Ehrenberg, Age 19
Located in Stockholm, SE
Paul Ehrenberg (1876–1949)
Sleeping Boy, 1895
Red chalk on paper
sheet 38 × 52 cm (14.96 × 20.47 inches)
framed 61 × 74 cm (24.02 × 29.13 inches)
signed and dated twice
Essay:
Thi...
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1890s Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Foot Musik
By Roberto Matta
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 56 x 58 cm.
Frame size: 76 x 78 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Archive number (P90/36)
Acquired directly from the artist.
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
Category
1990s Surrealist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
From Folklore to Disney: Tenggren’s 1919 Scene with Boy and Ceremonial Horn
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970)
The Horn (1919)
signed Tenggren.
Ink, watercolor and gouache on cardboard
unframed 29.5 x 30 cm (11 ⅝ x 11 ¾ in)
framed 41.5 x 42 cm (16 ⅜ x 16 ½ in)
h...
Category
1910s Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
King Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Lützen
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Fredrik Hill’s drawing King Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Lützen is a visionary reimagining of a famous historical event. The composition centers on the Swedish king amidst...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink
Italian School 18th Century Drawing - Red Chalk on Paper
Located in Stockholm, SE
An Italian red chalk drawing depiction on paper, probably 17th or 18th century, illustrating the dramatic scene of Polyphemus hurling a boulder at Acis and Galatea. Attributed to an...
Category
17th Century Italian School Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Winter Landscape with Jetty beside a Frozen Waterway
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ferdinand Boberg (1860–1946) Sweden
Winter Landscape with Jetty beside a Frozen Waterway
Ink and watercolor with black framing lines on cardboard
21.5 x 17.1 cm (8.5 x 6.7 in.)
fra...
Category
1920s Realist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Study of Two Dancing Children in Ottoman Costume - 19th Century Watercolor.
Located in Stockholm, SE
Study of Two Dancing or Playing Children in Ottoman Costume
Watercolour on paper. Probably executed during the first half of the 19th century.
This delicate study depicts two Ottoman...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Mrs Veronica Heiss with Coral Hair Ornament and Necklace, 1883
By Anders Zorn
Located in Stockholm, SE
This early watercolour portrait by Anders Zorn depicts Mrs Veronica Heiss (née Reiner, 1841–1927) in a bust-length, oval composition. Zorn portrays the sitter wearing a vivid madder-...
Category
1880s Post-Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Two Clowns (Les Deux Clowns) by Antonio Gonzalez Collado
By Antonio Gonzalez Collado
Located in Stockholm, SE
Artist: Antonio Gonzalez Collado
The Two Clowns (Les Deux Clowns)
mixed media on paper
signed
artist studio stamp on the back
dimensions (motif) 15...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Evening Calm by the Northern River
Located in Stockholm, SE
ink on paper
signed OSC. LYCKE
unframed 24 x 34 cm (9.4 x 13.4 in)
framed 33.5 x 43.5 cm (13.2 x 17.1 in)
Provenance:
Acquired directly from Katarina Gunnarsson, who inherited the ...
Category
1910s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Lord Clyde and His Staff
Located in Stockholm, SE
In 1857 an uprising had broken out in India, known as ”The Mutiny". As far as British relations with India were concerned, the event represented a watershed, as a result of which the...
Category
1850s Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Romani Woman - 19th Century Drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
A graphite profile portrait drawing of a woman on paper by Johannes Collin (1873-1951), signed “Johannes Collin 98” and titled “Zigenerska”. This early and unusual work by Collin presents his interest in refined drawing and capturing character even at a modest scale. It dates from 1898, a formative moment for the artist when he was studying arts and stands out as a somewhat rare example of his graphic or drawing work rather than his better known small bronzes.
Johannes Collin was born in 1873 in Skåne, south Sweden.
After passing his matriculation at the Cathedral School in Lund in 1892, he studied at university in 1894–96 and then turned to art studies.
From 1899 to 1901 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and from 1903 to 1905 he studied sculpture in Paris.
Collin settled in Lund, Skåne and pursued a career as sculptor and poet. He died in 1951 in Lund.
He was the son of a farmer and raised in the Skåne countryside. Early on he developed a sensitivity to form, figure, and expression, combining his sculptural ambitions with literary leanings (he later published a small volume of poetry).
Collin appears to have had an individualistic personality: he moved in student and artistic circles in Lund, but also kept a modest, sometimes even eccentric public persona. In the mid-1930s, he increasingly turned to poetry and pared back his three-dimensional work.
From his early years, he gradually developed into a sculptor working in bronze and patinated materials. Much of his work consists of small‐scale bronzes with an intensity of expression. One critic (in Kulturens yearbook) wrote of Collin that “the monumental is not in the work’s external dimensions but in the attitude … your small sculptures have an inner monumentality”.
Collin exhibited his works in various venues: for example he took part in the Lund Exhibition (“Lundautställningen”) in 1907.
Internationally, he showed works in Munich in 1909 and 1913, where his efforts were positively reviewed.
A noteworthy retrospective or exhibition was held at the museum Kulturen in Lund, when a donation of Collin’s sculptures...
Category
1890s Other Art Style Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Artist Brother Staffan Kronberg Dressed as a Prince, 1911
Located in Stockholm, SE
Executed in 1911, just three years after Margherita Kronberg graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, this early drawing portrays the artist’s younger brother, Staffan, dressed...
Category
1910s Romantic Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board, Laid Paper
Early Summer Light by Swedish Artist Oscar Lycke, 1911
Located in Stockholm, SE
Executed in 1911, this ink and crayon drawing by Oscar Lycke captures the quiet clarity of early summer in northern Sweden. A hillside meadow, dotted with loosely gathered hay, unfol...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Sweden - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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