The artist Alf Lindberg studied at the Valand School of Painting, with Tor Bjurström and Sigfrid Ullman among his teachers. Among his fellow students were Inge Schiöler and Åke Göransson. Several of the artists in his circle of friends are today counted among the Gothenburg Colourists, but Alf Lindberg's early work deviated from the strongly colourist line, which is clearly evident in the auction's

still life from the family kitchen table, with leeks, asparagus, beetroot and prawns laid out and ready for cooking. Alf Lindberg often mentioned Cezanne as one of his sources of inspiration.

Over a hundred of Alf Lindberg's paintings were presented at the major exhibition at Waldemarsudde in Stockholm in 2005. From his elegant valour paintings to the recent colour explosions.

Alf Lindberg is represented in the collections of the National Museum in Stockholm, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Gothenburg Art Museum and the National Gallery in Oslo.

‘Alf Lindberg was certainly a Gothenburg painter, that is, he lived, worked and influenced in Gothenburg. But he was hardly a ‘Gothenburg colourist’. At least not at the time, in the 1930s and 40s. He looked with some trepidation and scepticism at the ‘colour buses’ as he called them. At the time, he defended the grey scale and value painting. His own colourist liberation came a couple of decades later. And then with the force of a minor volcanic eruption.’