West Coast (Marstrand)

West Coast (Marstrand)

1893

Oil on canvas

Mått 46,00 x 38,00 cm Ram 62,50 x 54,50 cm

GKM 2013-11

Bequest of Gustaf Werner (1859–1948) to the City of Gothenburg. Transferred to the Gothenburg Museum of Art in 2013.

The coastal landscape was executed in the summer of 1893 when Olof Sager-Nelson painted in Marstrand, supported by patron Pontus Fürstenberg and living at Gustaf Werner’s house. Largely naturalistic with a touch of impressionism, the painting skilfully captures the bright sunshine, the sunlit clouds and the reflections on the water. The painting also displays a tendency towards a stricter geometric composition in the spirit of synthe-tism, with the windmill and the jetty indicating the directions in the picture. During his time in Stockholm, Sager-Nelson met Ivan Aguéli who was familiar with the new continental art movements. Financially supported by Fürstenberg, in September 1893 Sager-Nelson travelled to Paris where he made his most famous works: the symbolic portraits in a viridescent range of colours. His career was cut short by illness. He contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 28 in Biskra, Algeria.

Göteborg, Göteborgs konstmuseum, 07/09/2013 - 17/11/2013