August Hagborg
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Women Gathering Mussels on the Beach
Signed Hagborg. Oil on canvas 82 x 100 cm.
Provenance
Bukowski Auktioner, Kvällsauktioner 454, 19 October 1987, lot 23.
More information
August Hagborg arrived in France in 1875 and remained there until 1914, only interrupted during the summers when, like Zorn and Strindberg, he enjoyed painting in Dalarö in the Stockholm archipelago. After 1914, Hagborg also found inspiration in Dalarna. As early as 1875, Hagborg painted coastal scenes from Normandy, a theme to which he would remain faithful. His realistically executed figure depictions of the fishing community stand out against a backdrop where sea, sky, and beach often merge into a unity of light and space in yellow-grey-blue tones.
Artist
August Hagborg was a Swedish artist born in Gothenburg. He studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts and in France together with Georg Pauli and Axel Borg. He is represented by the national museum in Stokcholm and the Luxemburg Museum. Hagborg is most notably known for his beautiful, realistic paintings from Normandy's coast where painted portraits of the french fisherman. Yellow and red tones are stand out in his previous artworks, and he later painted in a grey-pink palett.
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