Kersti Flyckt, Forest Landscape

Kersti Flyckt, Forest LandscapeA colourful mid century oil on canvas depicting a dense forest by Swedish artist, Anna Kerstin "Kersti" Flyckt (1925 2009). Tall slender trees provide strong vertical lines while the forest floor comes alive with bold horizontal marks. This is a good example of Flyckts finest work its created with confidence and liberal use of impasto. Flyckt studied at Konstgillet's painting school in Bors and undertook several study trips through Scandinavia. Shes

Provenance: Austria

There’s an area towards the top in which some darker paint has gathered but this is as the artist intended

old stretcher bars

She’s wearing a dress with a woodpecker brooch and looking across to our right

His work also formed part of an exhibition at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Given the age of the canvas

The board has a curve

the light is gently falling across a haystack-covered field and some distant hills

It’s said that Foss was so enamoured with the countryside that he was known to omit buildings if they spoilt his view

The painting is signed in the lower left and housed within a gilded foliate frame that’s probably its original

such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s

The artist has conveyed a sense of stoicism and pride with this gentleman - which is further enhanced by the profile perspective