Gösta Adrian-Nilsson

Earlier in the collection of Accountant Karl Lindh, Stockholm.
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 519, 2-4 May 2001, lot 13.
Private collection (acquired at the above Sale).

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "GAN. GÖSTA ADRIAN-NILSSON. Retrospektivt", 29 March - 27 April 1958, no 15.

"Konst i svenska hem", vol. II, No 12, catalogued p. 628 under collection 1087: "Kamrer Karl Lindh, Brantingsgatan 49, Stockholm" (under the title "Skyskrapor, New York").

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson is most notable as a visual artist, and he is a pioneer of Swedish modernism. He studied at the Tekniske Selskabs Skole in Copenhagen and later for Johan Rohde at Zahrtmann’s school in Copenhagen. As an avant-gardist, Nilsson was constantly searching for new influences. In Berlin, he was influenced by the circle around the radical magazine Der Sturm, through Kandinsky and och Franz Marc. In Paris through Fernand Legér and the artists in his circle. GAN was an eclectic in the positive sense of the word. He took the the artist styles of the 1900s and created new impressions. Symbolism, cubism, futurism, expressionism, constructivim and Theosophy were the colours occupying his internal pallet. He had a sharp eye for the masculine and his painting was often energized by the vitality of modern technology, vibrant eroticism, and echoes of tyrants. No other Swedish modern artist exhibits such a unique style.