Low tide, Normandy
Signed Hagborg. Oil on canvas 61 x 81 cm.
Gerda Hagborg, the artist's wife.
Parisutställningen 1929, kat. nr 7, listed as owned by Mrs. G. Hagborg.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Opponenterna av 1885", 16 March - 16 May 1945, listed as owned by Elsa de Dardel.
Stiftelsen Modums Blaafarveværk, Norway, "Somrene i Normandie - fra Monet til Strindberg og Thaulow", 30 April - 2 October 1994.
Konstmuseet Ateneum, Helsingfors, "Landet bortom havet - Nordiska konstnärer i Normandie, Bretagne och England, 1860 - 1900", 21 September - 2 December 2001.
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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