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Important Winter Sale presents Eugène Jansson ”Timmermansgatan”


Eugène Jansson

”Timmermansgatan”


Eugène Jansson style of painting changed in the mid-1890s when he moved to the heights of Mariaberget on Södermalm, a small rural neighbourhood on the steep cliffs facing Riddarfjärden in Stockholm. He resided at several addresses; Timmermangatan, Bastugatan and Hornsgatan, and the different settings and views inspired him in his work. A turning point is an encounter with the work of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, exhibiting for the first time in Stockholm. Eugène Jansson was deeply impressed by the bold and expressive style of Munch’s painting, and this is the start of Jansson’s ‘blue period’ spanning 1890 to 1904. Influenced by Munch, Jansson made numerous paintings of Stockholm at dusk and dawn, lights reflecting in the water. Deserted streets and twilight views are dominated by a palette of deep blue and grey contributing to the deep melancholy and symbolic mood.


The painting “Timmermansgatan” is a brilliant example of Jansson’s paintings from this period. The entrance to the stairs in the foreground directs the viewer’s gaze down the steps towards the abyss of the lower street. There is no sign of life in the foggy winter scene. Only the magical shimmer of the streetlights lining the path reminds us of the eventual presence of human beings.



› Signed Eugène Jansson. Executed 1897, Canvas 109 x 62 cm. Estimate 3 000 000 – 5 000 000 SEK


Eugène Jansson's biographer Inga Zachau writes the following about Jansson's use of a predominantly blue palette:


‘Eugène Jansson was the boldest colourist of the turn-of-the-century painters, expressive in his art, passionate, original and radical. While his peers in the 1890s painted nationally romantic depictions from their local regions of Sweden he remained in Stockholm, which was his homeland, the landscape where he discovered new motifs: the city at dusk and at night, painted in a colour scheme that includes all shades of blue. Eugène Jansson is the Stockholm painter above all others.’


To be sold at Important Winter Sale December 8–10.


Viewing December 2 – 7, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
Auction Live December 8 – 10, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm
Catalogue online November 25


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