Lot 200
  • 200

Tor Bjurström

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Tor Bjurström
  • Frukter på fat (still life with fruit)
  • signed with the artist's initials T S B lower right
  • oil on canvas
  • 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.

Exhibited

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Den Unga Expressionismen, 1944
Stockholm, Liljevachs Konsthall, Jubileumsutställning, 1951

Condition

Original canvas. There are no signs of retouching under ultraviolet light, and the work is verall in very good original condition, with only some areas of scattered craquelure, and ready to hang. Held in a simple, modern, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Tor Bjurström was born in Stockholm and grew up in a wealthy merchant family interested in music and art. In 1905 he began his studies at the Konstnärsförbundets Skola in Stockholm with Richard Bergh and Carl Nordström as teachers.

Bjurström continued his studies in Copenhagen and in 1908 went to Paris where he became a pupil of Henri Matisse. In 1920 he took up a teaching position at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg where he worked throughout the '20s. During this period he had a profound influence not only on the school but on the artistic life of Gothenburg.