Winter Landscape

Winter Landscape

1888

Oil on canvas

Mått 72,50 x 92,00 cm Ram 73,00 x 92,00 x 5,50 cm

F 29

Bequest of Pontus and Göthilda Fürstenberg, 1902

From the book “The Collection: The Gothenburg Museum of Art”, Gothenburg 2014: A group of stone houses present windowless walls and partially snow-covered roofs to the viewer. The foreground is given over to the white snowy ground. Beyond the houses stand some tall, bare poplars and a lone willow tree, and in the distance snow-covered fields rise up to the greenish-blue sky. Instead of Impressionism’s shimmering light, the forms here are highlighted by the rhythm of the outlined blocks of colour across the image. The cool light reinforces the sense of silence and solitude. It is a coolness that stands in sharp contrast to the artist’s colourful images from Tahiti, but it gives an insight into his artistic development. Kristoffer Arvidsson

Göteborg, Göteborgs konstmuseum, 19/07/2014 - 19/10/2014 Köpenhamn, Statens Museum for Kunst, 22/02/2003 - 25/05/2003, no. 37 Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 25/09/2002 - 19/01/2003, no. 37 Stockholm, Liljevalchs konsthall, 03/09/1954 - 10/10/1954, no. 138

Sixten Strömbom, Konstnärsförbundets historia 2. Nationalromantik och radikalism: 1891–1920, Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1965., ill. p. bild 4 Georg Pauli, "Fürstenbergska galleriet. Spridda drag ur dess historia", Ord & Bild, 1902, p. 349, ill. p. 350 Impressionismen och Norden. Franskt avantgarde i det sena 1800-talet och konsten i Norden 1870-1920, utg. av Torsten Gunnarsson och Per Hedström, Stockholm, 2002, no. 37, p. 305, ill. p. 120 Carl Larsson, utg. av Torsten Gunnarsson, Stockholm/Göteborg, 1992, p. 249 Axel L. Romdahl, Konstmonologer i Göteborgs Museum, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm (1911) 1921, p. 71-72, ill. p. 72 Nils Ryndel, Franskt måleri i Göteborgs konstmuseum. With a summary in English, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg 1961, p. 22, 27, ill. p. 23 Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Björn Fredlund, Anna Hyltze, Philippa Nanfeldt, Isabella Nilsson, Johan Sjöström, Samlingen Göteborgs konstmuseum, red. Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Anna Hyltze, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg 2014., p. 134, 267-272, ill. p. 268 Helsingfors, Ateneum Art Museum, Japanomania i Norden 1875–1918, red. Gabriel P. Weisberg, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff och Hanne Selkokari, 2016., p. 241-244, ill. p. 244 Anne-Birgitte Forsmark, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Bernard. Dramat i Arles, red., Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, 2014., no. 90, p. 103-104, ill. p. 104