73 x 81cm, signed and dated INGE SCHIÖLER 1965.
Still Lifes
Through the Ages
8 – 22 March
Opening hours Mon – Fri 10–18 Sat 12–16
Selected Works
Ivan Aguéli, Still life with fruit,
oil on canvas on masonite, 23,5 x 25 cm.
Ivan Aguéli
Still life with fruit
Still life with fruit may at first sight give the impression of being a sketchy and unfinished painting. However, such an interpretation is misleading. Like his contour drawings and oil sketches, Aguéli regarded these works as completed in their own right. For him, the character of the sketch was not an indication of incompleteness, but rather a conscious choice of expression, in which he constantly sought the essence of the subject. The fact that many of his works stopped at this stage was due to his restless artistic and intellectual search rather than to a lack of focus.
Hilding Linnqvist, Lilies, oil on panel, 62 x 49 cm,
monogrammed HL, executed in 1924.
Hilding
Linnqvist
Lilies
Lilies is a work that is very representative of Linnqvist's early still life paintings. The composition and colouring are in many ways reminiscent of Linnqvist's famous painting Tagetes from 1920. Unlike that painting, however, the overall impression of the subject is heavier and denser. Both the flowers and the vessel in which they stand here have a coarser texture, and the arrangement feels more like a real, living bouquet than in the earlier painting, which is more reminiscent of the somewhat stiff flower arrangements of the 17th century.
Gunnar Löberg, Still Life Tables, oil on canvas, 83,5 x 90 cm, signed and dated G. Löberg. -36.
Gunnar Löberg
Still Life Tables
In his still life paintings, Gunnar Löberg oscillates between the soberly observant, the expressive and the surreal. He returns to places and motifs that bother and fascinate him: toys, boathouses, lonely dogs, girls on the beach and boys in top hats, but he never gives any explanations for the motifs. In his world, the content of the image is entirely subordinate to the experience of it, and his aim is for the paintings to be perceived intuitively by the viewer.
Alexander Coosemans, Still life with oysters and fruits, wine glass and vanitas, oil on canvas, 73,5 x 96,5 cm.
Alexander Coosemans
Still life with oysters and fruits, wine glass and vanitas
Still life with oysters and fruit, wine glass and vanitas, the artist has chosen to depict a large fruit platter in the centre of the picture. On the left, oysters are placed on a shiny tin platter, in front of a piece of bread and a wine glass. On the right side of the picture is an elaborately draped piece of cloth on which a gilded goblet is placed. Behind the goblet rests a skull, a common feature of so-called vanitas still lifes, intended to remind us of the transience of life. Technically, Coosemans demonstrates his skill in rendering contrasts between shiny metals, the soft surface of fruit and the tactile quality of textiles.
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