Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Woman on a Rooster Rug.
Monogram signed and dated 1888. Oil on canvas, 41x32.5 cm.
Wear due to age and use. Crazing.
Provenance
Pehr Hj. Tallberg, Helsinki; by descent within the same family.
Exhibitions
Gallen-Kallela's 100th anniversary exhibition, Tarvaspää, 1965, no. 22.
"The Master's Works from Private Collections," Gallen-Kallela Museum's 25th anniversary exhibition, 26 April - 14 September 1986, no. 12.
"I want to do everything myself", Gallen-Kallela Museum, 13.6.-31.8.2025.
More information
The work is included in the Akseli Gallen-Kallela catalogue raisonné project, with ref. AGIYPC
Artist
Akseli Gallen-Kallela is counted among Finland's most famous artists, born in 1865 in Pori. He studied at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society in Helsinki and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. He worked across various art forms such as painting, graphics, illustrations, textiles, architecture, and even designed military uniforms. Akseli Gallen-Kallela's first significant work, 'Old Woman with a Cat,' challenged the ideals of its time and paved the way for realism in Finnish painting.
Gallen-Kallela was primarily known for his paintings and illustrations for the Finnish national epic, 'Kalevala.' In 1900, he executed dome paintings with Kalevala motifs for the Finnish pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. His visual language is often described as naturalistic, symbolic, and expressionistic
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