Bruno Liljefors

Ellenius writes the following about the auction's current painting: "It is dusk, as so often in the images of the lives of duck flocks in reeds and shoreline vegetation. The yellowed sky is reflected in an intricate weave of dark shadow fields and water lily leaves. Around the ducks, the surface is broken by a cobalt blue ripple that suggests the direction of the flock's movement across the still water. With maintained naturalism, the fields and patches of colour live their own life on the picture surface. Claude Monet's renowned water lily ponds in Giverny indicate both points of contact and differences in perceptions of nature."