"Spring in Winter"
Signed G. Fjæstad Vermland. Oil on canvas 85 x 138 cm.
Åmells konsthandel, Stockholm; private collection.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A, "Catalogue 283" (under the title "Spring in Winter"); United Kingdom, "Collection arranged by The Art Exhibition Bureau, 7 Garrick St, London" (under the title "The Source in Winter"[?] ); Robinot Frères, Salon, 1932.
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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