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A compelling mid-century painting that explores the relationship between an intimate interior and the exterior world beyond, painted in oil in 1958 by the established Swedish artist Richard Björklund (1897–1974), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the National Museum in Stockholm, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Malmo Museum, Ystads Art Museum, and others.

The viewer appears positioned within an enclosed room, looking outward through a doorway or architectural opening towards a fragmented exterior landscape.

The composition reveals clear influences of Cubism and geometric abstraction, with both the interior and exterior reduced to overlapping planes, angular forms and blocks of colour. Rather than relying on conventional perspective, the artist constructs space through intersecting shapes and shifting viewpoints, allowing the boundaries between foreground, interior architecture and the world outside to subtly dissolve.

Within the foreground, broad passages of red, burgundy, mustard, forest green and deep blue suggest the interior through abstracted fragments of flooring, furnishings and shadow. Tall vertical planes of powder blue, grey and creamy white frame either side of the composition, creating the impression of walls or a doorway and directing the eye towards the exterior.

Beyond this opening, the outside world becomes increasingly fragmented. Geometric arrangements of blue, brown, olive, grey and black loosely evoke buildings, rooftops and windows, while small golden-yellow forms towards the upper centre suggest structures illuminated by light. The exterior remains recognisable without ever becoming literal, hovering beautifully between architecture and pure abstraction.

The palette is rich and confidently balanced, with saturated reds and blues offset by earthy browns, muted greens, cool greys and whites. Dark passages of charcoal and near-black provide structure, while flashes of yellow and orange bring warmth and rhythm to the composition.

Paint is applied in broad, assured strokes, with visible brushwork and deliberately softened, irregular edges preventing the geometric construction from feeling overly rigid. Areas of dense, opaque pigment contrast with thinner and more loosely worked passages, giving the surface a wonderfully tactile quality

This oil on canvas is presented in an elegant gilt wood frame with an inner linen border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 71.5 x 49 cm (including frame)

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Knives and Forks No.1
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Bristol-based artist Brendan Lancaster finds interest in the most ordinary of subjects. In his Knives and Forks series, familiar pieces of cutlery become an exploration of composition, colour and the relationships between objects. Lancaster carefully arranges pieces collected from home and second-hand shops, experimenting with the way they point towards or away from one another and the shapes created in the spaces between them. Despite their simplicity, these small arrangements have a surprising sense of drama — a knife leaning towards a fork can suddenly feel like two characters in conversation.

Colour is equally important. Lancaster works within a beautifully restrained range of earthy browns, creams and neutrals, paying particular attention to tiny shifts between warmer and cooler tones and to what he calls the “edge” of colour — the point where one colour meets another. Rather than creating hard, precise boundaries, he layers and reworks the paint to produce softer edges, an effect enhanced in several works by the wonderfully tactile surface of hessian. The small scale is deliberate too: these are paintings intended to draw you in rather than shout for attention, leaving enough space around the objects for the viewer to slow down, notice the light and colour, and find something unexpectedly contemplative in the everyday.

This painted has been executed in oil onto hessian canvas, and is beautifully presented in a dark wood veneer tray frame. Both painting and frame are in excellent condition.

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Size: 35.5 x 28.5 cm (including frame)

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Knives and Forks No.2
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Bristol-based artist Brendan Lancaster finds interest in the most ordinary of subjects. In his Knives and Forks series, familiar pieces of cutlery become an exploration of composition, colour and the relationships between objects. Lancaster carefully arranges pieces collected from home and second-hand shops, experimenting with the way they point towards or away from one another and the shapes created in the spaces between them. Despite their simplicity, these small arrangements have a surprising sense of drama — a knife leaning towards a fork can suddenly feel like two characters in conversation.

Colour is equally important. Lancaster works within a beautifully restrained range of earthy browns, creams and neutrals, paying particular attention to tiny shifts between warmer and cooler tones and to what he calls the “edge” of colour — the point where one colour meets another. Rather than creating hard, precise boundaries, he layers and reworks the paint to produce softer edges, an effect enhanced in several works by the wonderfully tactile surface of hessian. The small scale is deliberate too: these are paintings intended to draw you in rather than shout for attention, leaving enough space around the objects for the viewer to slow down, notice the light and colour, and find something unexpectedly contemplative in the everyday.

This painted has been executed in oil onto hessian canvas, and is beautifully presented in a dark wood veneer tray frame. Both painting and frame are in excellent condition.

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Size: 28 X 36 cm (including frame)

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Knives and Forks No.3
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Bristol-based artist Brendan Lancaster finds interest in the most ordinary of subjects. In his Knives and Forks series, familiar pieces of cutlery become an exploration of composition, colour and the relationships between objects. Lancaster carefully arranges pieces collected from home and second-hand shops, experimenting with the way they point towards or away from one another and the shapes created in the spaces between them. Despite their simplicity, these small arrangements have a surprising sense of drama — a knife leaning towards a fork can suddenly feel like two characters in conversation.

Colour is equally important. Lancaster works within a beautifully restrained range of earthy browns, creams and neutrals, paying particular attention to tiny shifts between warmer and cooler tones and to what he calls the “edge” of colour — the point where one colour meets another. Rather than creating hard, precise boundaries, he layers and reworks the paint to produce softer edges, an effect enhanced in several works by the wonderfully tactile surface of hessian. The small scale is deliberate too: these are paintings intended to draw you in rather than shout for attention, leaving enough space around the objects for the viewer to slow down, notice the light and colour, and find something unexpectedly contemplative in the everyday.

This painted has been executed in oil onto hessian canvas, and is unframed but can be hung as is. The painting is in excellent condition.

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Size: 30 x 42.5cm

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Knives and Forks No.4
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Bristol-based artist Brendan Lancaster finds interest in the most ordinary of subjects. In his Knives and Forks series, familiar pieces of cutlery become an exploration of composition, colour and the relationships between objects. Lancaster carefully arranges pieces collected from home and second-hand shops, experimenting with the way they point towards or away from one another and the shapes created in the spaces between them. Despite their simplicity, these small arrangements have a surprising sense of drama — a knife leaning towards a fork can suddenly feel like two characters in conversation.

Painted on unframed canvas, these works have a slightly sharper, more precise quality than Lancaster’s works on hessian, while still retaining the quietness that characterises the series. His beautifully restrained palette of earthy browns, creams and neutrals makes tiny shifts in colour all the more noticeable. He pays particular attention to warmer and cooler tones and to what he calls the “edge” of colour — the point where one colour meets another — repeatedly adjusting and layering paint until the relationship feels just right. Their intimate scale is deliberate: rather than demanding attention from across a room, these are paintings that reward looking closely, encouraging us to slow down and find something unexpectedly beautiful in the most familiar everyday objects.

This oil on canvas is in excellent condition.

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Size: 30.5 x 20.5 cm

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Knives and Forks No.5
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Bristol-based artist Brendan Lancaster finds interest in the most ordinary of subjects. In his Knives and Forks series, familiar pieces of cutlery become an exploration of composition, colour and the relationships between objects. Lancaster carefully arranges pieces collected from home and second-hand shops, experimenting with the way they point towards or away from one another and the shapes created in the spaces between them. Despite their simplicity, these small arrangements have a surprising sense of drama — a knife leaning towards a fork can suddenly feel like two characters in conversation.

Colour is equally important. Lancaster works within a beautifully restrained range of earthy browns, creams and neutrals, paying particular attention to tiny shifts between warmer and cooler tones and to what he calls the “edge” of colour — the point where one colour meets another. Rather than creating hard, precise boundaries, he layers and reworks the paint to produce softer edges, an effect enhanced in several works by the wonderfully tactile surface of hessian. The small scale is deliberate too: these are paintings intended to draw you in rather than shout for attention, leaving enough space around the objects for the viewer to slow down, notice the light and colour, and find something unexpectedly contemplative in the everyday.

This painted has been executed in oil onto hessian canvas, and is beautifully presented in a dark wood veneer tray frame. Both painting and frame are in excellent condition.

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Size: 31 x 26.5 cm

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Knives and Forks No.6
£300
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Bristol-based artist Brendan Lancaster finds interest in the most ordinary of subjects. In his Knives and Forks series, familiar pieces of cutlery become an exploration of composition, colour and the relationships between objects. Lancaster carefully arranges pieces collected from home and second-hand shops, experimenting with the way they point towards or away from one another and the shapes created in the spaces between them. Despite their simplicity, these small arrangements have a surprising sense of drama — a knife leaning towards a fork can suddenly feel like two characters in conversation.

Painted on unframed canvas, these works have a slightly sharper, more precise quality than Lancaster’s works on hessian, while still retaining the quietness that characterises the series. His beautifully restrained palette of earthy browns, creams and neutrals makes tiny shifts in colour all the more noticeable. He pays particular attention to warmer and cooler tones and to what he calls the “edge” of colour — the point where one colour meets another — repeatedly adjusting and layering paint until the relationship feels just right. Their intimate scale is deliberate: rather than demanding attention from across a room, these are paintings that reward looking closely, encouraging us to slow down and find something unexpectedly beautiful in the most familiar everyday objects.

This oil on canvas is in excellent condition.

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Size: 28 x 20.5 cm

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Portrait in Crimson
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A compelling mid-century abstract figurative composition, executed in oil onto board by the established Swedish artist Gunnar Johnsson (1917–2007), whose artworks have represented in public collections including the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Skåne Art Association.

The painting depicts a seated female figure, her body filling the composition with a strong yet contemplative presence. Her face is turned slightly to one side, with features loosely articulated through sweeping lines and broad passages of colour. The figure is built from overlapping, fragmented forms, giving the work an intriguing tension between recognisable portraiture and abstraction.

Executed in an expressive modernist style, the composition reduces the figure and surrounding interior into simplified, irregular planes. Facial features, hair and clothing are suggested rather than precisely rendered, with areas of the body appearing to dissolve into the softly worked background.

The palette is dominated by coral red, crimson, dusty rose and deep burgundy, balanced by warm cream, chalky white, pale yellow and touches of powder blue and muted grey. The concentration of richer reds around the face and body draws the figure forward against the understated background.

Brushwork is loose, gestural and wonderfully tactile, with visible directional strokes tracing the contours of the face and clothing. Areas of thicker, worked paint contrast with thin, softly brushed passages, while scratched and dragged marks lend the surface a sense of immediacy and movement. The overall effect is expressive and intimate, capturing the figure through colour and gesture rather than conventional likeness.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary gilt frame. The painting presents with a small area of craquelure to the upper left, which is stable. Overall, the work remains in good vintage condition, with minor signs of age consistent with its period.

Size: 58 x 53 cm (including frame)

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The Artist’s Room
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A brilliantly executed and richly textured modernist interior scene oil composition, painted by the established Swedish artist Max Gregor Carlsson (1914-1996), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the Malmö Museum, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Ystads Museum, Norrköping City Collection, and the Landskrona Konsthall.

This striking compositions depicts an artist’s studio or creative workspace, rendered with a compelling sense of structure and stillness. The composition centres on an easel positioned before a window, through which a tightly framed view of neighbouring rooftops and chimneys can be glimpsed. Sparse furnishings and dark, geometric forms punctuate the room, giving the otherwise familiar interior an intriguing, almost abstract quality.

The work has a distinctly modernist sensibility, reducing the room and its contents to simplified planes, strong outlines and block-like shapes. Perspective is deliberately flattened and slightly skewed, creating a tension between representation and abstraction. The architectural geometry of the window, walls and furniture provides a strong framework, while the solitary studio setting lends the painting a wonderfully contemplative atmosphere.

The palette is restrained and beautifully muted, dominated by chalky cream, soft sage and blue-grey, offset by deep charcoal, black and earthy brown. Small touches of ochre, terracotta and warm beige soften the cooler tones and draw the eye towards the view beyond the window.

Paint has been applied with visible, textured brushwork, particularly across the broad areas of wall and ceiling. Short, directional strokes animate the otherwise flat planes, while heavier dark lines define the furniture and architectural elements. This combination of tactile surface, simplified form and subdued colour gives the painting a wonderfully characteristic mid-century presence.

This oil on canvas is housed in a characterful linen-lined wood frame with an inner wood and gilt border. The painting has some areas of craquelure, but the paint layer remains stable, and the work is in good overall condition. The frame has some scuffs consistent with age.

Size: 49 x 65 cm (including frame)

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The Pastel Room
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A charming mid-century modernist style interior depicting an intimate domestic space, loosely arranged with a chest of drawers, mirror, upholstered chair and a small potted plant in the foreground, executed in oil onto canvas.

The familiar furnishings are simplified into broad planes and angular forms, giving the room an appealing sense of abstraction while retaining the warmth and character of a lived-in interior.

Painted in a distinctly modernist style, the composition plays with flattened perspective and loosely defined geometry. Walls, furniture and floor overlap in shifting blocks of colour, creating a gently fragmented quality that brings rhythm and movement to an otherwise quiet scene.

The palette is particularly lovely, combining pastel shades of powdery blues, soft pinks and lilacs with muted sage and teal greens. Warmer notes of terracotta, ochre, rust and burgundy punctuate the cooler surroundings, while creamy whites lend lightness and balance.

Brushwork is confident and wonderfully visible throughout, with broad, directional strokes and areas of dry, textured paint. Rather than carefully modelling each object, the artist builds the interior through colour and gesture, giving the work a spontaneous, expressive quality.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary silver-grey toned wood frame with an inner linen border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 63 x 72 cm (including frame)

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The Reflection
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A striking semi geometric landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas.

This brilliantly executed oil transforms a waterside scene into a playful arrangement of colour and shape. Trees become sharp triangles, buildings are reduced to blocks, and their reflections fragment into an almost abstract pattern across the water below.

The palette is particularly joyful: vivid lime and forest greens sit alongside brilliant yellow and cool blues, giving the painting a wonderful freshness and energy. Yet despite the bold colour, there’s a pleasing sense of order to the composition, with the strong horizontal shoreline balancing the cluster of angular forms above and below it.

Somewhere between landscape and abstraction, it’s the sort of painting that can be enjoyed simply for its shapes and colours and then, almost suddenly, resolves itself back into a place.

This oil on canvas is presented in a very well suited silver painted floater frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has some very minor scuffing.

Size: 64 x 54 cm (including frame)

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Figures by the Sea
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A wonderfully serene modernist coastal scene dated 1987, depicting three elongated figures gathered along a sweeping shorelines, executed in oil onto canvas.

One figure appears to carry or draw in a fishing net, while a central figure stands beside a loosely rendered bicycle and a third looks out towards the water. Two small sailing boats punctuate the distant sea, reinforcing the painting’s gentle maritime character.

The composition is distinctly modernist and semi-abstract, reducing both the figures and surrounding landscape to simplified, almost geometric forms. The exaggerated proportions of the figures – with their long limbs, narrow heads and softly defined silhouettes – lend the scene a dreamlike quality. Perspective is deliberately flattened, with the rolling foreground, sea and sky arranged in broad bands of colour rather than rendered naturalistically. The delicate linear construction of the bicycle and net provides an expressive counterpoint to the more solid blocks of colour elsewhere in the work.

A beautifully restrained coastal palette dominates, built around powder blue, turquoise, aquamarine, teal and deep marine blue. Small accents of darker green in the sails and deep blue along the horizon provide definition, while the luminous blue sky gives the painting an airy, summery atmosphere.

The artist works with loose, visible brushstrokes, particularly across the sea and foreground, where layered strokes and variations in tone give movement and texture to the otherwise simplified forms. Elsewhere, paint is applied in broad, relatively flat passages, with edges left softly irregular rather than precisely delineated. Fine, gestural dark lines are used sparingly to describe the bicycle, net and smaller details, adding an appealing sense of spontaneity.

Overall, the work has a wonderfully quiet, nostalgic Mediterranean feel, balancing figurative storytelling with the decorative simplicity and colour-led abstraction characteristic of late twentieth-century modernism.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary slim white painted wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has very minor marks.

Size: 68.5 x 68.5 cm (including frame)

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Harbour in Blue
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A serene mid-century harbour scene depicting a small collection of boats resting on still waters, watched over by a solitary white lighthouse in the distance, executed in oil onto canvas.

The composition has an appealing sense of quiet and balance: the darker vessel in the foreground anchors the scene, while the luminous white boat and lighthouse draw the eye across the water towards the horizon. Reflections soften the divide between boats, sea and sky, lending the harbour an almost dreamlike stillness.

Painted in a distinctly mid-century modernist style, the artist pares the landscape back to its essential shapes. Boats, masts and harbour structures are simplified into clean, almost geometric forms, while perspective and finer details are deliberately understated. The tall lighthouse provides a strong vertical focal point, echoed by the slender masts scattered throughout the composition.

The palette is especially evocative, dominated by muted marine blues, turquoise, teal and blue-grey, punctuated by creamy whites, soft yellow and touches of rust and deep charcoal. The pale lighthouse appears almost luminous against the expansive blue sky, while the warmer tones of the harbour and boats prevent the cooler palette from feeling austere.

Brushwork is confident and visibly painterly. Broad horizontal strokes describe the sky and distant shoreline, while thicker, more directional marks articulate the boats and their reflections. Rather than rendering the water in precise detail, the artist uses layered passages of blue, green and grey to suggest its glassy surface. Looser strokes in the reflections introduce gentle movement and texture, beautifully contrasting with the simplified solidity of the boats above.

Overall, the work captures the quiet atmosphere of a coastal harbour at rest, combining modernist restraint with a wonderfully calming, nostalgic quality.

This oil on canvas is presented in a handsome gilt wood frame with a wide cream-toned inner border. The painting is in good vintage condition – there are small areas of craquelure present but remain stable. There are marks to the inner frame. These age-related imperfections are consistent with the work’s vintage nature and do not detract from its overall appearance.

Size: 49 x 56.5 cm (including frame)

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The Golden Divide
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A striking mid-century abstract composition that brings together architectural geometry and suggestions of a coastal landscape through a carefully balanced arrangement of colour and form, executed in oil onto canvas.

The composition sits between pure abstraction and landscape, with angular forms suggesting buildings or structures gathered beside water. An expansive field of pale blue creates a sense of openness, while a slender golden line stretches across the upper canvas, reading both as a distant horizon and a strong geometric device.

Executed in a distinctly mid-century modernist language, the work shows influences of geometric abstraction, reducing architecture and landscape into intersecting planes and blocks of colour. Its asymmetrical composition and generous negative space lend the painting a particularly fresh, contemporary quality.

Luminous blues are layered with saturated cobalt, ultramarine and deep navy. These cool tones are enlivened by mustard yellow and warm golden brown, alongside passages of white and cream. A near-black circular form anchors the foreground, while the fine golden horizon provides a striking contrast against the blue.

Broad, controlled areas of colour are combined with more expressive, visibly worked passages. Vertical strokes and overlapping bands of blue create movement and depth, while subtle variations in opacity allow underlying colours and canvas texture to remain visible. The result feels both carefully constructed and intuitively painted.

This oil on canvas is presented in an complementary slim silver frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 57.5 x 68 cm (including frame)

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Blue Tiger
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A bold and dynamic contemporary geometric abstract painting, executed in acrylic onto canvas and dated 2023.

Visually striking in its composition, the painting boldly explores the interplay of geometric shapes and the allure of rich and saturated colours.

The canvas comes alive as it presents an interplay of different shapes and sizes. Each shape has been meticulously rendered and thoughtfully coloured so that they harmonise well together to create a delicate balance between order and chaos.

This acrylic on canvas comes unframed, and is in excellent condition.

Size: 50 x 40 cm (including frame)

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Blue Vase & Pears
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A charming and characterful still life composition executed in tempera on board and dated 1977, by the established Swedish artist Eric Cederberg (1897-1984), whose artworks have been represented in several public and museum collections across Sweden.

Small yet very effective in its composition, this still life presents a carefully arranged tabletop composition of everyday objects. A dark earthenware jug, a pale turquoise vase filled with delicate lily of the valley, and three ripe pears are set against a rich crimson tablecloth and a deep, shadowed background. The artist transforms these humble domestic objects into a balanced and quietly contemplative composition, celebrating the beauty found in simplicity.

Painted in a distinctly mid-century modern style, the work embraces flattened perspective and bold, simplified forms rather than strict realism. Each object is reduced to its essential silhouette, creating a harmonious interplay of shape, colour, and negative space.

The palette is warm and restrained, combining deep burgundy reds, earthy browns, olive and sage greens, and soft pear yellows with the striking contrast of the cool turquoise vase. The crisp white blossoms of the lily of the valley provide a fresh focal point, while the dark background enhances the luminous quality of the objects and intensifies the richness of the colours.

Brushstrokes are smooth and deliberate, with paint applied in opaque, even layers that create broad areas of flat colour. Subtle tonal variations gently model the forms without sacrificing the painting’s graphic simplicity, while clean outlines and confident edges reinforce its decorative, modernist character.

This tempera on board is presented in a complementary wood frame with an inner linen lining. Both the painting and frame are is in excellent vintage condition. Please note that is some glare present in the photographs.

Size: 37.5 x 42.5 cm (including frame)

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Boats at Rest
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A striking mid-century modernist painting that captures the quiet charm of a coastal scene, executed in oil onto board.

Two boldly coloured boats – one in deep navy blue, the other in brick red – rest upon warm ochre sands, their strong silhouettes set against whitewashed houses with terracotta roofs. Behind them, rolling green hills meet a vivid band of cobalt sky, while the turquoise edge of the sea curves into view at the foreground.

Executed with a modernist sensibility, the scene is reduced to simplified geometric forms and flat planes of rich colour, outlined in confident black strokes. The palette balances earthy warmth with refreshing coastal blues and greens, evoking both the heat of the sun and the coolness of the sea breeze. The smooth, uniform brushwork enhances the crisp, graphic quality of the composition, lending it a timeless feel.

This oil on board is presented in a wooden frame with a linen inner border that beautifully complements the painting’s bold lines and coastal palette. Both the artwork and frame display some water marks and age-related spots, consistent with their vintage character. The frame also bears some scuffs and some scratches, most notably along the top right edge.

Size: 47.5 x 72.5 cm (including frame)

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Forms in Motion
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A striking mid-century modernist abstract oil composition dated 1965, and painted by the established Swedish artist Ture Fabiansson (1910-1994), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, The Museum of Art in Gothenburg, Jönköping Museum, Borås Art Museum, and many others.

This painting explores the interplay of organic form, colour and movement. Large, loosely defined shapes gather and overlap across the canvas, creating a lively visual rhythm that feels simultaneously spontaneous and carefully balanced. The forms remain deliberately ambiguous, inviting associations with leaves, petals or fragments of the natural world without resolving into a recognisable subject.

The palette is particularly distinctive, bringing together powdery blue, fresh lime green, warm brown, burnt orange and earthy brick red, punctuated by bold areas of charcoal black. Sections of creamy white provide moments of openness between the denser passages of colour, while the contrasting warm and cool tones give the composition its wonderful energy.

Stylistically, the painting has a distinctly mid-century modernist sensibility, with an emphasis on simplified organic forms and expressive colour rather than representation. There is an almost collage-like quality to the arrangement, as individual shapes appear layered, interlocked and suspended across the surface.

The brushwork is loose, visible and wonderfully tactile. Short, overlapping strokes remain evident within the larger blocks of colour, creating subtle variations in tone and texture. Rather than striving for perfectly polished edges, the artist allows the hand-painted quality of the work to remain visible, lending the composition an appealing immediacy and warmth.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary slim gilt frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 50.5 x 78.5 cm (including frame)

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Geometric Neighbourhood
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A playful and brilliantly executed mid-century composition of a neighbourhood, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1959.

Containing elements of geometric abstraction, the scene is defined by tall houses that have been skilfully reduced to geometric blocks in contrasting colours, with a splash of fun patterned dots.

Rich earthy tones dominate the palette – deep turquoise and emerald greens are punctuated by lighter greens, with hints of black, brown, and white and yellow demonstrating depth to the painting. The artist’s use of these colours creates a fun and vibrant atmosphere.

Despite the simplified forms, the neighbourhood’s lively energy is palpable, inviting viewers to explore the interplay between the shapes, colours, and expressive brushwork.

This oil on canvas is housed in a well-suited linen lined frame with an inner gilt window. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has a very minor scuffs.

Size: 40 x 72.5 cm (including frame)

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House Above the Fields
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A soothing mid-century abstract landscape that reduces a landscape environment to a harmonious arrangement of shape, colour and atmosphere, exeucted in oil onto canvas.

At the centre, the suggestion of a solitary house emerges from the landscape, its pitched roof and shadowed facade loosely defined against an expansive, pale sky. Surrounding fields and distant terrain are distilled into broad, overlapping planes, giving the composition the quality of a landscape recalled from memory rather than directly observed.

The work has a distinctly modernist sensibility, balancing abstraction with just enough recognisable detail to anchor the scene. Architectural and natural forms are simplified into irregular geometric blocks, while softened edges allow one area to dissolve gently into the next. The unusually generous area of open sky brings a wonderful sense of stillness and space to the composition.

The palette is beautifully restrained, built around powder blue, misty grey, olive and moss green, charcoal and earthy brown. Against these muted tones, passages of dusty blush pink, turquoise and vivid cornflower blue provide unexpected flashes of colour, while a small accent of orange-red at the far right adds a particularly lively counterpoint.

Brushwork shifts between thin, softly blended passages and more substantial, textured applications of paint. The house is especially expressive, constructed through scumbled layers of brown, cream, grey and browns that allow underlying colours to remain visible. Elsewhere, broad horizontal strokes establish the landscape, while areas of dry, dragged pigment and visible bristle marks lend the surface a tactile, painterly quality. The result is a quietly atmospheric work in which landscape, architecture and abstraction sit beautifully in balance.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary white painted wood floater frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has minor marks.

Size: 53 x 53 cm (including frame)

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Lilies in a Vase
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A charming mid-century still life depicting a loosely arranged bouquet of lilies and iris-like blooms gathered in a simple peach-toned vase, executed in oil onto board.

Set against a cool, softly worked blue-grey ground, the flowers rise elegantly from the vessel, their elongated green leaves creating a graceful sense of movement through the composition. A band of muted lilac beneath the vase provides a subtle grounding contrast and lends the work an unexpectedly modern touch.

Painted in a distinctly mid-century modernist style, the artist favours simplification and expression over botanical precision. The flowers are reduced to broad, angular shapes, while the vase and surrounding space are rendered with minimal modelling. The restrained composition and flattened perspective give the painting a quiet, almost contemplative quality.

The palette is particularly appealing, combining powdery blue-grey, soft white, cornflower and violet blue, sage and emerald green, dusty lilac, and warm peach and ochre. The cool background allows the white flowers to appear luminous, while the peach vase introduces warmth at the centre of the composition. Small touches of blue and lavender within the white petals beautifully tie the flowers into the surrounding palette.

Brushwork remains visible throughout, with loose, confident strokes giving the flowers and foliage their character. The petals are built from broad, layered applications of pale paint, creating gentle texture and highlights, while longer, more directional strokes describe the leaves and stems. The background is handled more softly, retaining subtle vertical and horizontal brush marks that give the otherwise quiet field a pleasing painterly depth.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary gilt wooden frame, with stepped moulding and a narrow cream inner slip. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 50 x 40 cm (including frame)

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Masquerade
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A lively and captivating mid-century geometric abstract composition, executed in oil onto board by the established Swedish artist Edvard Andersson (1891-1967), who’s artworks have been represented in several prominent institutions across Malmö, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and also at Helsingborgs Museum.

The painting is filled with an array of geometric shapes painted in rich bold tones of brown, black, yellow, blue, and turquoise. These shapes collide and overlap, creating a rhythmic interplay across the surface.

Amidst the abstract nature of the painting, a subtle mask-like form, a building block, as well as silhouettes of figures emerge, adding a touch of mystery to the composition.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary slim wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 59 x 53.5 cm (including frame)

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Morning Light
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A beautifully restrained mid-century interior painting that captures a simple wooden table positioned before a softly illuminated window, where a modest bouquet of freshly gathered flowers introduces the composition’s only vivid burst of colour, executed in oil onto board and dated 1958.

Rather than focusing on intricate detail, the artist distils the scene into an elegant study of light, atmosphere and quiet domesticity, allowing the interplay between interior and exterior to become the true subject.

Executed in a refined modernist style, the composition demonstrates a thoughtful balance between representation and abstraction. Clean architectural forms, flattened planes and subtle tonal relationships create a calm, contemplative rhythm, while the generous areas of negative space lend the work an understated sophistication. The window serves as both a compositional anchor and a source of gentle luminosity, drawing the eye through the room and towards the softened suggestion of greenery beyond.

The palette is wonderfully muted, comprising warm greys, soft taupes, sage greens and gentle blue-greys, complemented by rich walnut browns within the table and window frame. Against these subdued tones, the bouquet introduces touches of crimson, ochre, deep violet and fresh green, providing a restrained yet captivating focal point.

Confident, deliberate brushstrokes define the painting throughout. Broad, vertical strokes animate the walls with subtle movement, while thicker, more sculptural applications of paint give weight to the table and flowers. The window and surrounding architecture are rendered with economical precision, allowing the texture of the oil paint to remain visible and enhancing the painting’s quiet, tactile presence. The result is an intimate and timeless interior that celebrates the beauty found in everyday moments.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffs.

Size: 44 x 36 cm (including frame)

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Sun Over the Hills
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A vibrant mid-century modern landscape depicting a village nestled between two towering mountains beneath a luminous midday sun, executed in oil onto board and dated 1949.

The composition simplifies the natural world into bold, interlocking forms, balancing geometric architecture with broad, sculptural hills to create a scene that feels both recognisable and dreamlike.

Painted in an expressive modernist style, the work embraces flat planes of colour and stylised shapes rather than naturalistic detail. The village is rendered as a lively mosaic of simplified buildings, while the surrounding mountains are distilled into sweeping, abstracted masses that frame the composition with dramatic presence.

The palette is rich and energetic, combining turquoise skies, glowing chartreuse, earthy olive greens, burnt oranges and deep crimson accents. Strong contrasts between cool and warm tones create a striking sense of sunlight and atmosphere, while dark passages anchor the composition and add visual depth.

Confident, painterly brushstrokes alternate with textured marks that enliven the mountain slopes and architectural forms. Areas of smooth blended colour sit alongside more gestural passages, allowing the surface to retain a sense of movement and spontaneity. The result is a bold, joyful composition that captures the warmth and vitality of the landscape through colour, rhythm and expressive design.

This oil on board is presented in a wood frame with a warm gilt outer edge, silver-toned inner moulding and deep green liner, complementing the painting’s vibrant palette. The painting is in excellent vintage condition overall, and the frame has minor scuffs.

Size: 43 x 34 cm (including frame)

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Sunlit Cart
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A lively mid-century modernist style landscape oil painting, by Swedish artist Eric Elfvén (1921–2008), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Jönköping Museum, Borås Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

At the heart of the composition lies a wooden cart with large wheels casting cool blue shadows across a warm orange path. Behind it, simplified forms of houses – painted in muted orange, coral red, and powder blue – sit neatly among rounded green trees and trimmed hedgerows.

The artist has used a flattened perspective and geometric abstraction, reducing the scene to bold shapes and colour fields. The palette is both playful and restrained; the shadows and structures are stylised, offering just enough detail to ground the viewer in a familiar rural setting, while leaving space for interpretation.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has light scuffing.

Size: 37.5 x 44.5 cm (including frame)

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A soothing and restful modernist style river landscape composition, executed in oil and dated 1971.

The composition presents a boat shed situated in lush greenery, and resting by a river where a boat is docked.

The use of a cool and earthy colour palette including shades of blue, green, and brown imbues the painting with a calming feel. Containing impressionist qualities, distinct painterly brushstrokes have been dabbed swiftly across the surface, beautifully capturing the nature landscape and transient conditions of reflection and rippling effect of the water.

This oil on canvas has been laid onto board, and is housed in a complementary wood frame with an inner linen border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. A tiny sliver of the backing board is visible to the top right corner. There is age toning to the linen border, as well as light wear to some of the frame corners.

Size: 54 x 48 cm (including frame)

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Boats in Pastel
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A large and atmospheric mid 20th century modernist pastel and gouache composition, depicting boats docked at a harbour.

Using a restrained colour palette comprising shades of black, blue and yellow, the mellow and muted tones create an air of nostalgia in this piece.

Loose brushstrokes though executed in a seemingly swift and unrestrained manner, are thoughtful and precise – wonderfully capturing the transient conditions of light and water.

This pastel and gouache composition is housed beautifully in a wide-profiled light gilt (champagne) and silver frame. It is also glazed (there is a sheet of glass between the frame and the painting). The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some areas of scuffing commensurate with its age. Please note that due to the glass there are areas of reflection in the photographs.

Size: 59.5 x 86 cm (including frame)

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By the Waterbank
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A large and atmospheric mid-century landscape that presents a tranquil riverside scene with a subtle narrative undertone, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1952.

Two figures rest on the grassy bank of a still canal, their gazes drawn toward a moored boat and a drawbridge in the distance. The composition is balanced by low farm buildings on the left and the soft sprawl of countryside under a cool, clouded sky.

Executed in a loose, expressive style, the brushwork is thick and confident, capturing texture and movement, especially in the turbulent sky and reflective water. The palette is dominated by muted tones: steely blues, sage greens, earthy browns, and soft greys, evoking a moody, contemplative atmosphere. The overall effect is quietly cinematic – a fleeting moment of stillness rendered with emotional restraint and painterly clarity.

This large oil on canvas is housed in a complementary ridged gilt frame with an inner linen border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has scuffs.

Size: 64.5 x 73.5 cm (including frame)

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Cottages by Quiet Water
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A gentle mid-century scene that unfolds along a modest shoreline, where a row of whitewashed cottages sits quietly beneath soft autumnal trees, and executed in oil onto canvas.

In the foreground, three small wooden boats rest at ease on still water, their forms mirrored in loose, shimmering reflections. A pair of figures stand near the dock, adding a subtle narrative of companionship and scale to the composition.

The style leans toward a restrained impressionism, with a focus on atmosphere over detail. Forms are simplified and slightly softened, allowing the overall harmony of the scene to take precedence. The palette is beautifully muted: creamy whites, dusty pinks, warm browns, and gentle blues – evoking a calm, almost nostalgic mood. The sky is handled with delicate tonal variation, suggesting the fading light of late afternoon or early evening.

Brushstrokes are confident yet unforced, applied with a light touch that gives the painting its airy quality. The water is rendered with loose, horizontal strokes, capturing reflection rather than precision, while the cottages and boats are built up with slightly thicker, more defined marks.

This oil on canvas is present in a beautiful wood frame with a rich honey-toned finish, as well as an gilt and inner linen border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some light scuffing.

Size: 39 x 59 cm (including frame)

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Geometric Harbour
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A gentle and brilliantly executed mid-century modern painting that features an abstracted harbour scene, painted in oil onto board and dated 1960.

The composition likely depicts a small fishing village with moored boats and angular buildings nestled along the shore. Containing elements of geometric abstraction, the forms of the boats and architectural elements have been deconstructed and simplified into an arrangement of sharp lines and faceted shapes.

The colour palette is an elegant blend of muted earth tones, including yellow, deep green, soft blue, and beige, creating a harmonious, atmospheric effect. The boats are rendered in stark white, drawing the viewer’s eye toward the center of the composition.

Executed in a restrained yet confident manner, the brushstrokes are smooth and blended, with subtle textural variations that enhance depth and structure.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame with an inner linen lining and white border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some surface marks at the bottom right of its inner border.

Size: 40 x 64.5 cm (including frame)

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