Gustaf Fjaestad
Winter landscape with sunlit pine
Signed G Fjaestad with dedication: "Till Maggan Julen 1918". Canvas 34.5 x 29.5 cm.
Provenance
Originally in the collections of paint merchant Carl Magnus "Maggan" Liljeberg, Lidingö (gift from the artist).
Thence by descent within the family to the present owner.
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On verso written by the artist : "Detta är min första snötavla och uppslaget till mitt snömåleri. Målat på Gångsättra i min gröna ungdom". (This is my first snowmotif-painting and the beginning of all my snowmotif. Painted at Gångsättra in my youth).
Designer
Gustav Fjaestad was a pupil of Bruno Liljefors and Carl Larsson. He became renound for his depictions of Swedish winter landscapes, often with glistening icecrystals and bubbling water by ice's edge, sometimes lit up by the setting sun, sometimes in scales of grey, white and purple. He also designed templates for woven wallpapers, furniture, and wrought iron. He is represented in major Swedish museums as well as in Vienna and Chicago.
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