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Gustaf Fjaestad

(Sweden, 1868-1948)
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Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Gustaf Fjaestad, "The First Snow".
Estimate
200 000 - 250 000 SEK
17 800 - 22 300 EUR
19 000 - 23 800 USD
Hammer price
190 000 SEK
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Gustaf Fjaestad
(Sweden, 1868-1948)

"The First Snow"

Signed G. Fjæstad and dated 1913. Oil on canvas 83 x 108 cm.

Provenance

Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, sale 526, "Internationella höstauktionen", December 3-6, 2002, lot 241; private collection (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibitions

(Probably)Der XI Internationalen Kunstausstellung im Kgl. Glaspalast zu Munich, June 1- end of October 1913, no. 924 (under the title "Der Erster Schnee"); Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, February 20 - December 4 1915, no. 109 or 110 (under the title "The First Snow); Detroit Museum of Art, "The Swedish Exhibition", 1916.

Artist

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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