Olof Thunman - Sandö, Wallda Varby, Halland, 1913

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Olof Thunman - Sandö, Wallda Varby, Halland, 1913Olof Thunman (18791944) Sweden Sand, Wallda Varby, Halland, 1913 oil on canvas (laid on panel) unsigned unframed 31 x 47 cm (approx. 12. 2 x 18. 5 in) framed 42 x 58 cm (approx. 16. 5 x 22. 8 in) Provenance: Gift from the artist to Professor Rutger Sernander (18661944), Uppsala, and subsequently gifted by Sernander to his daughter Stina Sernander in 1930. Literature: Olof Thunmans Konst Frteckning ver genom Thunman utstllningen p Upplands nation 115

Johan Christoffer Boklund arrived in Stockholm and joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts

This genre of painting is today curiously overlooked

Carl Oscar Borg (1879–1947)

resulting in a truly remarkable masterpiece

The unusually narrow proportions strongly suggest that the panel originally formed part of a larger polyptych or altarpiece

The composition is carefully structured around the infant

and woodland corridors have long made this corridor visually distinctive and culturally legible as an edge condition between city and countryside

This suggests a narrative of departure or daily routine

This unexpected detail transforms what at first glance might seem like a serene city view into a moment of tension and unease

" the latter purchased during an Opponent exhibition in 1885 is in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm collection

Fritz von Dardel

and each had his runner behind him