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Ragnar Sandberg

(Sweden, 1902-1972)
Estimate
1 500 000 - 1 800 000 SEK
134 000 - 161 000 EUR
136 000 - 163 000 USD
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Unsold
Covered by droit de suite

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Finland: Kuvasto

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Amanda Wahrgren
Stockholm
Amanda Wahrgren
Specialist Modern Art, Prints
+46 (0)702 53 14 89
Ragnar Sandberg
(Sweden, 1902-1972)

"Biologilektionen (Biology lesson)

Signed RS and dated -38. Canvas 68 x 89 cm.

Provenance

Svensk-Franska konstgalleriet, Stockholm.

More information

The French post-impressionist Pierre Bonnard was a big inspiration for Ragnar Sandberg from the mid 1930s and onwards. Sandberg refined his colourite and created paintings with a sensual and poetic feel to them. At the end of the 1930s Sandberg added darker colours, contrasting with bright pink, red, yellow and blue. The motifs were mostly drawn from Gothenburg, depicting playful scenes with people bathing, cycling or, like here, students closely gathered around their fascinating object of study; a skeleton.