Reidar Särestöniemi
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Fisherman with today's catch
Signed R Särestöniemi and dated -58. Canvas 113.5 x 138.5 cm.
Provenance
Acquired from an art gallery in Tampere around 1970.
Private collection Estonia.
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The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Reidar Särestöniemi, one of Finland’s most celebrated and pioneering artists. The painting offered in this auction, created in 1958 during his years in Leningrad, depicts fishermen with the day’s catch – a rare example from his early period.
Särestöniemi grew up in Lapland under modest circumstances, and his artistic talent was discovered early by his uncle, who helped him gain admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. After studying both in Finland and later in Leningrad at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture between 1956 and 1959, he developed his own expressive style that combines a profound connection to nature with a powerful personal vision.
A study featuring the same motif as the auction painting is held in the collections of the Särestöniemi Museum in Kaukonen, Kittilä, Finland.