Winter landscape
Signed G. Fjæstad and dated -25. Oil on canvas 94 x 103 cm.
Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 410, "Vårauktionen", April 25-28, 1979, lot 32 (under the title "Vinterlandskap i solnedgångsbelysning"); Beijers auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 17, "Vårauktionen", April 22-24, 1987, lot 25; private collection, Stockholm.
Agneta Fjæstad-Nordmark, "Fjæstads konst", listed in the catalogue under 1925, p 397.
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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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