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Gösta Adrian-Nilsson

(Sweden, 1884-1965)
Estimate
450 000 - 500 000 SEK
40 100 - 44 600 EUR
41 500 - 46 100 USD
Hammer price
430 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Finland: Kuvasto

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Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
(Sweden, 1884-1965)

"Låsta plan"

Signed GAN. Executed circa 1930. Canvas laid down on panel 35 x 45 cm.

Saleroom notice

Executed circa 1930.

Provenance

Svensk-Franska konstgalleriet, Stockholm.

Exhibitions

Malmö Museum, "GAN", 1 - 23 October 1955, cat no 47.
Riksförbundet för bildande konst, utställning nr 297, "Gösta Adrian-Nilsson - Minnesutställning", 1967, cat no 24.

More information

GAN i holding the present painting in the photograph by Lennart Olson from 1953.

Artist

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson is most notable as a visual artist, and he is a pioneer of Swedish modernism. He studied at the Tekniske Selskabs Skole in Copenhagen and later for Johan Rohde at Zahrtmann’s school in Copenhagen. As an avant-gardist, Nilsson was constantly searching for new influences. In Berlin, he was influenced by the circle around the radical magazine Der Sturm, through Kandinsky and och Franz Marc. In Paris through Fernand Legér and the artists in his circle. GAN was an eclectic in the positive sense of the word. He took the the artist styles of the 1900s and created new impressions. Symbolism, cubism, futurism, expressionism, constructivim and Theosophy were the colours occupying his internal pallet. He had a sharp eye for the masculine and his painting was often energized by the vitality of modern technology, vibrant eroticism, and echoes of tyrants. No other Swedish modern artist exhibits such a unique style.

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