Gustav ARNÉR, 'Mountains at dusk', Mid-Century Swedish School

Framed: H 25 x W 31 cm
Oil on board, signed
 
The exquisite oil on board by Swedish painter Gustav Arnér is incredibly atmospheric, built on the strong contrast between mountains and a lake at dusk. The tightness and delicacy of the composition sits beautifully in this minimal format, and it's simply the perfect painting to escape for a moment.
 
Gustav Arnér (1893-1988) was a Swedish artist who attended the Technical School in Stockholm and then the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from between 1913 and 1920, making his debut on the Stockholm art secene in 1926. He travelled to France in throughout the 1920s and again after the war. He cane to prominence as a member of the artist group 'Nio Unga', or 'The Nine Young', to which he belonged from 1926 to 1930. Gustav Arnér continued to have an active career in Sweden throughout his life.