Tora Vega Holmström, "Tulpan"
Signed TVH. Canvas mounted on cardboard, 37.5 x 27.5 cm.
General good appareance.
Provenance
Andersbergs konsthandel, Malmö.
Exhibitions
Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, lot 991 (with the title "Tulip. Still life").
Konstföreningen för Södra Sverige (The Art Association for Southern Sweden (according to the exhibition label verso).
More information
Colourful Tora Vega Holmström became one of the leading modernists in Sweden, from around 1910-1930. Her paintings are characterised by an often powerful and fiery colouring, colours she learned to use after studying art in Austria, influenced by Adolf Hölzel's colour theory.
When she returned to her birthplace Åkarp in Skåne, she found a great role model in the artist Axel Törneman and also felt great admiration for the paintings of the artist couple Gabriele Münter and Vasilij Kandinsky.
Tora Vega Holmström was a strong, independent personality, brought up in intellectual and cultural environments in Lund. She studied at Valand in Gothenburg, with the neo-impressionist Carl Wilhelmson as her teacher. Tora Vega Holmström distinguished herself early on as a modernist and encountered Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism and Orphism in Paris in the early 1900s. At the same time, she had close contact with artists from the German avant-garde.
Tora Vega Holmström is represented at the Nationalmuseum, Moderna museet, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Helsingborgs museum, Malmö museum, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Kulturen i Lund och Ystads konstmuseum.
Covered by droit de suite
Image rights
The artworks in this database are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the rights holders. The artworks are reproduced in this database with a license from Bildupphovsrätt.
