Modern Art + Design presents: Sigrid Hjertén
Sigrid Hjertén
”Mot aftonen, Stadsgården”
Bukowskis presents Sigrid Hjertén’s “Mot aftonen, Stadsgården” at the Modern Art + Design auction the 17th and 18th of May.
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In the 1930s, Sigrid Hjertén returned to her favoured subject matter; the views across the wharf of Stadsgården in Stockholm studded with cranes, which she found fascinating. In her painting, she looks back through her memories and experiences, opening up her innermost being, and picking out the best. Using her brushes and her love of painting she regains a delight in creativity, which explodes with colour.
› Signed Hjertén. Canvas, 73.5 x 100.5 cm. Estimate 1 400 000 – 1 600 000 SEK.
A suite of paintings with cranes is painted in different lights, from early morning to late evening, similarly to Claude Monet who depicted his favourite subjects throughout the day and the different, shifting light.
Hjertén was consistently fascinated by the view over Stadsgården, with its wharfs and railway wagons, and on to Gamla Stan where towers and pinnacles soared among the clouds. The sky in this painting is shimmering pink, giving the work a monumental effect; the brushstrokes are diffused and the composition charged with movement. Sigrid’s paintings from the 1930s are dissolved, almost impressionistic. The large, black crane in the foreground rises high above the water, up to the sky.
A friend and fellow artist from the Matisse academy, Carl Palme, described her paintings from the first half of the 1930s as belonging to Hjertén’s “fully-fledged period”, when she had found her way to something that was “her own”. With firm, secure brushstrokes and consistent underpainting, Sigrid prepared the canvas, turning it into a willing soundboard. Carl Palme particularly pointed out the Stadsgården subjects in which her technique of using broad brushstrokes and then applying flecks of paint in different colours “created brilliant and virile, imposing works of art”.
The work will be sold at the Modern Art + Design auction.
Viewing May 12th – 16th, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm.
Auction Live May 17th – 18th, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm.
Catalogue Online May 3rd.
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