"Dansen" by Lena Cronqvist from the Sivert Oldenvi Collection
Lena Cronqvist
"Dansen”
Lena Cronqvist has consistently and curiously explored what it truly means to be human throughout her entire career as an artist. She has depicted humanity in its most vulnerable situations, from the defenseless newborn to the elderly man on his deathbed. In between, she has sculpted with color and painted the children's play, the clumsy attempts at tenderness by adults, and their longing for love. Using herself as a model, she has questioned the self and the individual's role in relation to the collective.
› Signed L. Cronqvist and dated 1984. Camvas 172 x 160 cm.
Cronqvist possesses a unique ability to blur and blend the boundaries between the inner space and the external reality, personal experience and general historical narratives, the highly personal and the universal. Over the years, there has also been an ironic tone in the artist's body of work, as if Cronqvist is keen to show that what she creates are ultimately just images and that reality exists beyond them.
Since her debut in 1965 at Galerie Pierre in Stockholm, Lena Cronqvist has uncompromisingly and consistently continued to approach the human mystery, both in painting and, later, in sculpture.
The work will be sold at Sivert Oldenvi Collection.
Estimate: Utrop: 800 000 - 1 000 000 SEK
Viewing September 15 – 19, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
Live Auction September 20, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm
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