Landscapes – Page 6 – The Discerning Palette

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Snowlight

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A large and gentle mid-century landscape that captures a serene winter hillside viewed through a stand of slender trees, executed in oil onto canvas.

Nestled among the muted mauves and soft earth tones are small snow-covered cottages, partially hidden within the landscape and lending the scene a quiet, almost contemplative atmosphere. The composition draws the eye inward through the vertical rhythm of the pale tree trunks, creating depth and stillness against the distant rolling hills.

Executed in a soft modernist style, the painting balances abstraction and representation with remarkable restraint. The palette is delicate and atmospheric, featuring powder blues, lavender greys, blush pinks, soft sage greens, and creamy whites that evoke the hush of winter light. Loose, painterly brushstrokes and gently layered colour fields give the work an airy, dreamlike quality, while the simplified forms and softened edges reflect the understated elegance often associated with mid-century Scandinavian landscape painting.

This large painting is presented in a complementary wood frame with a subtly rustic finish that enhances its calm and understated character. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 71.5 x 86.5 cm (including frame)

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The Quiet Whisper of Trees

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A delicate mid-century landscape that captures a pared-back scene defined by restraint and atmosphere, executed in oil onto canvas.

Two slender trees rise gently from an open, muted expanse, their forms softened and slightly blurred as though caught in a passing breeze or remembered at a distance. Behind them, a low, undulating horizon stretches quietly across the composition, anchoring the scene with a subtle sense of depth.

The artist has used a minimal, almost abstracted approach: foreground and background dissolve into one another through thin washes and softly layered tones. The palette is beautifully subdued, composed of warm taupes, soft greys, and pale stone hues, punctuated by a sweep of dark blue along the distant ridge. This restrained colour story enhances the painting’s calm, meditative quality.

Brushwork is loose and expressive, with feathery, gestural strokes defining the foliage and more fluid, diluted applications across the ground. The surface reveals moments of transparency where the canvas breathes through, adding to the sense of lightness and quiet openness.

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

Size: 45.5 x 45.5 cm (including frame)

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Through the Pines

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A peaceful and large mid-century landscape where a woodland scene unfolds along a gently winding path that disappears into a dense stand of towering pine trees, executed in oil onto canvas.

Sunlight filters through the canopy, illuminating the track and patches of grass while drawing the eye into the cool, shaded depths of the forest. The composition captures the quiet beauty of an untouched landscape, balancing the vertical rhythm of the tree trunks with the soft curve of the path.

Painted in a distinctly mid-century modern style, the work simplifies natural forms into bold, expressive shapes while retaining a strong sense of atmosphere. Rather than pursuing fine detail, the artist focuses on light, colour and movement, creating an impressionistic interpretation of the landscape.

The palette is fresh and harmonious, dominated by layered greens ranging from deep evergreen to luminous yellow-green, complemented by earthy browns and soft sky blues. Sunlit passages of creamy white and pale lemon create striking contrasts against the cooler shadows, lending the painting a bright, optimistic quality.

Confident, painterly brushstrokes define the composition. Broad, fluid strokes build the foliage, while long vertical marks articulate the tree trunks with rhythmic energy. Loose, visible applications of paint suggest rather than describe the landscape, allowing colour and gesture to convey the sensation of dappled light and the stillness of the forest. The result is an expressive, inviting composition that celebrates the beauty of the natural world through a modernist lens.

This oil on canvas is presented in beautiful wood frame with pronounced wood grain and a subtle stepped profile. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 94 x 84 cm (including frame)

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Under an Open Sky

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A serene mid-century landscape that captures the expansive beauty of a tidal estuary or coastal marsh, executed in oil onto canvas.

Broad stretches of pale sand and shallow water merge seamlessly with fresh green meadows beneath a vast, cloud-filled sky. A distant blue ridge anchors the horizon, while weathered timber posts punctuate the foreground, subtly guiding the eye through the open landscape. Rather than focusing on precise topographical detail, the artist conveys the quiet atmosphere and luminous quality of the scene.

Painted in a restrained modernist style, there is an emphasis on mood, light and colour over realism. T composition is simplified into broad horizontal bands of land, water and sky, creating a calm sense of balance and spaciousness.

The palette is soft and harmonious, blending cool greys, powder blues and muted slate tones with gentle yellows and fresh spring greens. Delicate shifts in tone evoke changing light across the marshland, while the subdued contrasts lend the painting an understated elegance.

Brushwork is confident, with broad, flat applications of paint defining the landscape in simplified forms. Thin, layered strokes and lightly textured surfaces allow subtle variations of colour to emerge, while a handful of darker, gestural marks describing the timber posts provide rhythm and visual structure. The result is a tranquil, atmospheric composition that captures the essence of the landscape through suggestion rather than detailed representation.

This oil on canvas is presented in beautiful wood frame with gilt trimmings. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 60 x 84.5 cm (including frame)

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Verdant Passage

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An energetic and gestural abstract landscape, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 2015 by post-war Swedish artist Bo Swenson (1932–2022), whose artworks have been displayed in major public collections including the Swedish National Museum and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

The artwork evokes the sensation of moving through a lush woodland rather than depicting it literally. Broad vertical forms suggest tree trunks, while sweeping fields of green hint at dense foliage, filtered light and the layered depth of a forest interior. The composition balances recognisable natural references with expressive abstraction, inviting viewers to complete the landscape through memory and imagination.

Executed in a distinctly gestural, modernist style, the painting favours spontaneity and movement over precise representation. Confident, oversized brushstrokes overlap freely, creating a lively interplay between solid forms and open passages of exposed canvas. Vertical black marks establish a rhythmic structure, while loosely applied green shapes soften the composition. The result is both dynamic and contemplative, capturing the atmosphere of nature through gesture rather than detail.

The palette is refreshingly vibrant, dominated by varying shades of rich greens. These are balanced with creamy ivory, warm buttery yellows and deep charcoal accents, producing striking contrasts that simultaneously convey freshness, light and shadow. The restrained colour selection allows subtle tonal shifts to create depth while maintaining an overall sense of harmony.

Brushwork is bold, immediate and highly expressive. Thick, loaded strokes sit alongside dry-brushed passages, adding texture to the surface. Sweeping arcs, broad painterly blocks and quick linear gestures overlap in an intuitive rhythm, while occasional exposed areas of ground provide breathing space within the composition. The visible hand of the artist imbues the painting with a sense of energy and confidence, making it highly engaging.

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

Size: 47.5 x 42 cm (including frame)

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White Houses in the Fields

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A charming and serene mid-century landscape painting, executed in oil onto canvas,

The composition captures a serene rural scene of white houses nestled amidst lush green fields. The landscape is framed by gentle mountains in the distance, providing depth and a sense of tranquility.

The artist has used smooth, flat brushstrokes that give the composition a peaceful feel. The colour palette is rich, dominated by earthy greens and red-browns, with soft whites accentuating the houses.

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

Size: 53.5 x 67 cm (including frame)

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Daylilies in Sunlight

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A bright and serene mid-century still life that captures a cluster of orange daylilies basking in sunlight, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1955.

The artist captures a fleeting, luminous moment with sunlight filtering through leaves and petals, transforming the everyday sight of blooming daylilies into something almost transcendent. There’s a sense of calm vitality here: the blooms, rendered in warm tones of orange and gold with touches of coral and crimson, rise dynamically from the cool greens of their leaves, their upward gesture bringing movement and energy to the composition.

Rendered with thick, expressive brushstrokes, the work feels both spontaneous and deeply considered. It invites the viewer not only to look but to feel the warmth of the sun and the peaceful rhythm of a day slowly unfolding.

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

Size: 55 x 46.5 cm (including frame)

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Haystacks by the Gate

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A charming mid-century landscape that captures a quiet rural scene under an expansive sky, executed in oil onto board.

To the left, several golden haystacks rise against the horizon, their rounded forms accented by loosely placed poles, hinting at agricultural life and seasonal rhythms. A road leads the viewer’s eye into the middle distance, where a simple wooden gate opens toward a countryside beyond.

Executed in a restrained and muted palette, the composition reflects a serene pastoral atmosphere. The brushwork is gentle and impressionistic, with visible textures in the sky and fields that lend the painting a sense of movement and authenticity. Delicate textures in areas such as the haystacks and road adds tactile interest without overwhelming the tranquil mood.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary linen-lined wood frame with and inner and outer gilt border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has light scuffing, as well as a chip at its bottom edge.

Size: 37 x 46 cm (including frame)

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Hillside Rhythm

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A vibrant mid-century modernist landscape composition that captures an undulating terrain rendered in bold, sculptural brushstroke, and executed in oil onto canvas.

The scene is abstracted into rhythmic forms where rounded hilltops and faceted slopes are expressed through confident sweeps of the brush, giving the land a sense of movement and tactile energy.

The colour palette is rich – cool sage, olive, and moss greens intersect with muted stone greys and soft sky blues, creating a harmonious balance between earth and air. The sky is painted in a smooth gradient of pale blue, acting as a calm contrast to the dynamic, textured land below. Each stroke is deliberate and expressive, laid down with visible directionality, giving the impression of wind pushing across the hillsides.

Painted with an almost sculptural quality, the brushwork creates volume and light without relying on fine detail – typical of the mid-century Scandinavian modernist approach, where form and rhythm take precedence over realism.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary gilt frame with an inner cream border. The painting itself is in very good vintage condition. The frame shows some age-related marks and has a section missing on the right side.

Size: 48.5 x 64.5 cm (including frame)

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Sunset by the Pines

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A captivating modernist landscape that captures a serene winter evening in a town, painted with a whimsical yet sophisticated hand., executed in oil onto canvas and dated 2004.

The composition is anchored by slender, trees stretching vertically across the canvas, their trunks etched in expressive, confident brushstrokes. Beyond the trees, a snow-covered red cottage stands bathed in the glow of a pink and amber sunset, with a fiery sun gently sinking into the horizon.

The artist has used a vivid yet harmonious palette- rosy pinks, icy blues, yellows, and earthy browns. Snow is rendered in light texture, while delicate dabs of white and gold depict the last leaves of autumn clinging to frosted branches. A few scattered birds and a ladder leaning against the cottage hint at daily life amidst stillness.

Executed in a stylised, semi-naïve manner, the work evokes the warmth of memory at of seasonal transition.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary champagne painted wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 65.5 x 75 cm (including frame)

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The Last Pine

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An atmospheric mid-century landscape painting that captures a serene alpine lakeside scene, where a solitary windswept pine stands against a vast expanse of calm blue water and distant snow-covered mountains, executed in oil onto board.

The composition balances openness and quiet drama, with the lone tree acting as both focal point and anchor within the expansive natural setting. Dark rocky forms along the shoreline contrast beautifully against the crisp mountain ridge and luminous sky, giving the work a contemplative and almost cinematic atmosphere.

Executed in a loose modernist style, the painting combines expressive brushwork with simplified forms typical of mid-century landscape painting. The artist uses confident, gestural strokes to suggest the rugged terrain and mountain contours, while softer blended passages in the sky create a sense of stillness and depth. The tree itself is rendered with elegant linearity, its sparse foliage painted in quick textured marks that lend movement and character.

The palette is rich yet restrained, dominated by cool tones of cerulean, deep lake blue, charcoal black, and snowy whites, offset by touches of earthy browns, moss green, and burnt sienna in the foreground vegetation. These warmer accents provide a subtle contrast to the crisp alpine backdrop and bring warmth to the composition.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary wood frame with an inner gilt inner trim. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 44 x 52 cm (including frame)

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Where the Trees Gather

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An atmospheric mid-century landscape that captures a grove of trees rendered through a highly simplified and painterly lens, executed in oil onto canvas.

Here, the artist distills the scene into a series of interlocking organic forms, evoking the rhythm and character of the natural environment. The composition suggests a stand of trees, their rounded canopies and twisting trunks emerging from a sunlit clearing beneath an expansive sky.

Executed in a modernist, semi-abstract style, the painting balances representation with abstraction. The forms are reduced to broad, sculptural shapes, creating a sense of quiet monumentality while retaining the essence of the landscape. The composition feels contemplative and timeless, inviting the viewer to experience the landscape as a mood rather than a specific place.

A restrained palette of soft sage greens, muted blue-greys, pale creams, and warm sandy browns lends the work a serene and harmonious quality. Subtle passages of charcoal, olive, and earthy brown provide contrast and depth, while hints of sky blue illuminate the upper portion of the composition.

The brushwork is loose yet deliberate, characterised by broad sweeping strokes and layered applications of paint. Visible brush marks animate the surface, with curved gestures describing foliage and more angular strokes defining trunks and shadows. The resulting texture creates a gentle sense of movement, enhancing the painting’s lyrical interpretation of the landscape.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary silver painted wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 52 x 66 cm (including frame)

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Where the Water Turns

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A calm and atmospheric contemporary abstract landscape composition that captures the quiet grandeur of a lake or reservoir nestled within a sweeping valley, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 2002.

The scene unfolds from an elevated viewpoint, with a broad expanse of silvery water cutting through dark wooded hills and receding into a distant horizon. In the foreground, a vibrant band of burnt orange terrain introduces warmth and energy, creating a dramatic contrast against the cool, atmospheric landscape beyond.

Executed in a semi-abstract style, the artist reduces the natural world to simplified forms and expansive colour fields, emphasising mood and spatial depth over fine detail. The composition balances geometric structure with painterly expression, lending the work a contemplative and almost dreamlike quality.

The palette is both restrained and evocative, dominated by soft greys, slate blues, charcoal blacks, and misty whites, punctuated by luminous passages of orange. These warm foreground tones draw the eye into the composition and suggest the fleeting colours of autumn against an otherwise tranquil landscape.

Brushwork varies throughout the surface, from broad, sweeping applications of paint in the sky and water to more textured, layered strokes within the wooded hills. Subtle vertical marks and dry-brush effects create movement and atmosphere, while the smooth treatment of the water lends the composition a sense of stillness and quiet reflection. The result is a powerful and atmospheric work that bridges abstraction and landscape painting with elegance and restraint.

This oil on canvas is presented in a well-suited wood frame finished in a soft silver-grey tone. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 66 x 79 cm (including frame)

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Hills by the Sea

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A charming mid-century modernist oil painting that captures a serene coastal escarpment overlooking calm blue waters, 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.

Rounded clusters of deep green foliage cascade across the foreground and hillside, while muted brown paths and cliff faces gently guide the eye toward the distant horizon. The simplified forms and restrained composition give the work a meditative stillness, evoking the quiet rhythm of an isolated shoreline.

Executed in a highly gestural modernist style, the painting balances abstraction with landscape representation. The artist reduces the scene into broad organic shapes and sweeping planes of colour, allowing atmosphere and structure to take precedence over fine detail. There is a subtle tension between the solidity of the landmass and the openness of the sea and sky, creating a beautifully understated composition.

The palette is both earthy and calming, composed of rich forest greens, olive tones, muted sand, pale cream, and soft powder blues. The contrast between the cool expanse of water and the dense, shadowed greenery gives the work depth while maintaining its minimalist sensibility.

Brushstrokes are broad, confident, and painterly, applied with visible texture and an instinctive rhythm. Thick curved strokes shape the foliage with a sculptural quality, while the sea and sky are rendered in smoother, flatter passages that heighten the sense of calm and spaciousness.

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

Size: 57 x 79 cm (including frame)

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Winter Light at Dusk

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An evocative mid-century modernist landscape scene with figure, executed in oil onto canvas.

This painting captures a solitary figure standing before a quiet winter landscape as an orange sun dips low against a muted sky. The composition is distilled into simplified geometric forms: angular rooftops, rounded treetops, and broad planes of snow – creating a serene yet contemplative atmosphere.

Rendered in cool tones of slate blue, charcoal, dove grey and icy white, the palette is beautifully punctuated by the warm, amber glow of the setting sun. The artist has used confident, stylised brushstrokes, outlining forms with inky, expressive lines that lend the scene a graphic clarity. Areas of flat colour are softened by subtle modulation, giving depth to the snowy fields and the silhouetted figure.

The overall effect is both still and cinematic: a quiet winter moment reduced to its essential shapes, colours and mood, with a strong sense of restraint and poetic minimalism.

This oil on canvas is housed in a characterful frame with a grey-wash wood grain finish. The painting in good vintage condition overall – with some marks and warp to the canvas.

Size: 78 x 88.5 cm (including frame)

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Garden Celebration

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A charming modernist figurative landscape painting that captures a leisurely outdoor gathering rendered abstractly with an almost dreamlike simplicity, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1971.

Small groups of figures drift through a soft green parkland, framed by loosely painted trees and two tables dressed in pale cloths, each topped with delicately decorated cakes. The scene feels both celebratory and intimate – a fleeting social moment distilled into colour, gesture, and atmosphere.

Executed in a naïve modernist style, the composition embraces spontaneity and abstraction over fine detail. The figures are reduced to simplified silhouettes and expressive blocks of colour, allowing the painting’s mood and rhythm to take precedence. Thick, textural brushstrokes give the work a tactile quality, with heavily layered whites and soft blush pinks contrasting beautifully against lively greens, deep blacks, and accents of crimson, violet, and sky blue.

The palette is airy and optimistic, dominated by fresh spring greens and creamy whites that evoke sunlight filtering across an open lawn. Loose, energetic mark-making throughout the trees and garments creates movement and visual playfulness, while the intentionally sparse background lends the work a quiet poetic openness.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary slim silver frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has some scuffed areas and minor paint loss, consistent with age.

Size: 36.5 x 42.5 cm (including frame)

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The Distance Between

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A serene landscape painting that presents a solitary figure standing in a vast, open field, facing toward a distant white structure that rises against the horizon, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1991.

The expansive sky occupies much of the canvas, shifting in gradient tones from pale cream near the horizon to soft blue above, evoking a sense of stillness and atmospheric depth.

The composition is minimalist yet evocative, with bold horizontal divisions of land, horizon, and sky creating a structured balance. The dark green foreground contrasts with lighter bands of yellow and green, leading the viewer’s eye toward the central figure and the white building. The figure, rendered in simple but deliberate strokes of blue, introduces a quiet narrative of solitude, contemplation, or journey.

The style is modernist and reductive, focusing on form and mood rather than intricate detail. Colours are clean and restrained – soft pastels in the sky, deep greens across the land, and a single bright accent of blue in the figure – lending the work a serene, contemplative atmosphere.

Brushstrokes are broad and confident, with smooth transitions in the sky and more textural, layered application in the landscape. The painter’s hand is visible yet controlled, conveying both immediacy and calm.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary silver painted frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has small scuffs.

Size: 51 x 67 cm (including frame)

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The Orchard Walk

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A lively mid-century expressionist landscape painting, executed in oil by the established Swedish artist Uno Vallman (1913-2004) whose works are included in the Swedish National Museum and The Swedish Modern Museum, to name a few. His works are also included in the collections of Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and the Tessin Institute in Paris.

The painting captures a solitary figure wandering through a grove of expressive, windswept trees set against a bright sky. The composition feels both playful and deeply atmospheric, with the rounded canopies forming rhythmic shapes across the canvas while the figure introduces a quiet human presence within the natural setting.

Executed in an expressive, semi-abstract style, the work is rich with energetic mark-making and spontaneous movement. Bold black linear accents weave through the trees and landscape, creating a graphic structure that contrasts beautifully against the softer fields of colour. The palette is vibrant yet balanced, dominated by fresh greens, sky blues, soft whites, earthy browns and flashes of vivid red-orange that animate the lower landscape.

Brushstrokes are loose, gestural and layered, giving the painting a wonderfully textured surface full of movement and visual rhythm. Thick outlines, broken colour application and painterly dabs lend the work an instinctive, almost childlike immediacy.

This oil on canvas is presented in a warm-toned wood frame with gilt detailing. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and there are some small scuffs to the corners of the frame

Size: 36 x 44 cm (including frame)

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A Pause Between Places

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A striking mid-century figurative landscape that captures a quiet, contemplative moment at the boundary between nature and the built environment, painted in oil onto board by the established Swedish female artist Brita Hansson (1918-1979).

A group of abstracted figures sit near a winding path, their forms simplified yet expressive, while a pair of stylised trees rise beside them – curving, organic silhouettes that anchor the composition. In the distance, block-like architectural forms suggest a town or cityscape, softened and abstracted to create a sense of calm detachment rather than urban bustle.

Executed in a distinctly mid-century modern idiom, the painting balances figuration and abstraction with ease. The artist has used flattened planes, rhythmic shapes, and a gently asymmetrical composition to guide the eye through the scene. There is a lyrical, almost poetic quality to the arrangement, where figures, trees, and buildings coexist in quiet harmony.

The palette is warm and nuanced, featuring soft creams, sandy beiges, pale blues, and blush tones, punctuated by deeper earthy browns, rust reds, olive greens, and muted teals. These contrasting yet harmonious colours lend the work both warmth and depth, while maintaining a light, airy atmosphere.

Confident, visible brushstrokes define the surface, with areas of loose, gestural paint layered against more opaque, block-like applications. Subtle scraping and overlaps reveal underlayers of colour, adding texture and movement. The painterly approach enhances the sense of spontaneity and modernist freedom characteristic of mid-century works.

This oil on board is housed in a well-suited wood frame with an inner gilt window. The painting is in very good vintage condition. There is a slight unevenness to the board but this is purely structural and does not affect the stability or visual impact of the artwork.

Size: 57.5 x 70 cm (including frame)

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Autumn Path

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A small yet impactful expressive mid-century landscape painting that captures a winding country path weaving through rolling farmland and clustered trees in full seasonal colour, executed in oil onto canvas.

A narrow stream or irrigation channel cuts through the composition, guiding the eye toward softly contoured hills and abstracted rural forms in the distance. The scene feels both pastoral and dreamlike, evoking the warmth and rhythm of the countryside through an imaginative, almost lyrical interpretation.

Executed in a lively modernist style, the work embraces bold simplification and expressive colour over realism. The artist uses energetic, layered brushstrokes and thick areas of impasto to create movement and texture across the surface. Dappled applications of paint in the trees and foliage lend the painting a vibrant, mosaic-like quality, while gestural lines define the pathways, fences, and cultivated fields.

The palette is rich and earthy, featuring warm browns, burnt orange, sienna, olive green, cobalt blue, cream, and touches of lavender and crimson. These contrasting tones create a striking sense of depth and seasonal atmosphere, balancing warmth with cooler passages of blue and white throughout the composition.

This oil on canvas is presented in a wide profiled wood frame with an gilt inner border, which complements the painting’s warm palette beautifully. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and there is some small losses to the top corners of the frame. Nevertheless, the work displays well overall.

Size: 25.5 x 31.5 cm (including frame)

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Autumn Valley

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An expressive and atmospheric mid-century landscape that captures a countryside at the height of the changing season, executed in oil onto canvas.

Rolling fields unfold across the foreground, where a solitary red-roofed cottage rests amidst sweeping green meadows, lending a sense of scale to the expansive vista. Beyond, a vibrant belt of autumn foliage stretches across the valley floor, its fiery hues glowing against the darker wooded ridges and distant hills that frame the horizon.

Painted in a distinctly modernist manner, the artist distils the landscape into broad, simplified forms and expressive passages of colour, prioritising mood and rhythm over strict realism. The composition is carefully balanced, with horizontal bands of field, forest, and sky creating a sense of harmony and depth, while the undulating contours of the land gently guide the viewer’s eye through the scene.

The palette is both rich and nuanced, combining warm oranges, burnt siennas and soft crimsons with cool passages of sage green, blue-grey, lavender, and pale turquoise. Above, an expansive sky is animated by layered clouds rendered in sweeping strokes of blues and white, suggesting shifting light and the onset of changing weather.

The brushwork is confident and expressive throughout. Short, energetic strokes build the foliage into a tapestry of colour, while broader, more gestural applications of paint define the fields and sky. Areas of visible canvas and loosely applied pigment lend the work a freshness and immediacy, capturing not only the appearance of the landscape but also its atmosphere and emotional resonance.

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

Size: 56 x 67.5 cm (including frame)

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Coastal Road to the Sea

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A lyrical and atmospheric semi-abstract landscape painting, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1982.

The painting captures the charm of a seaside village nestled among soft golden hills. A winding road leads the viewer’s eye gently toward the distant horizon, where a calm stretch of blue sea meets a pale, almost translucent sky.

Painted in an expressive, semi-abstract style, the composition features loosely defined cottages scattered across the hillsides, their rooftops rendered in pastel tones of rose, lilac, mint, and cornflower blue. The artist has used a restrained, earthy palette dominated by yellows, greys, and soft creams, punctuated by these subtle touches of colour that lend the work a nostalgic yet dreamlike quality.

The brushwork is gestural and textured, with generous impasto lending physical depth and spontaneity to the canvas. Strokes appear almost sculpted in places, conveying a tactile sense of the landscape’s contours.

Overall, this piece evokes a serene, timeless mood – an evocative blend of memory and place.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary light gilt frame that has a very unique light green tint. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 57.5 x 47.5 cm (including frame)

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Cubist Table Arrangement

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A calm and intriguing mid-century modernist still life painting that presents a carefully balanced arrangement of everyday forms – a loaf of bread, a ceramic vessel, a handled bowl of green fruit, and a series of stacked geometric planes, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1957.

The composition is constructed through overlapping blocks and angular shapes, creating an architectural sense of structure while still retaining the warmth and familiarity of a domestic tabletop scene.

Executed in a distinctly modernist style with Cubist influences, the work simplifies objects into flattened forms and intersecting planes, allowing colour and composition to take precedence over realism. The arrangement feels both orderly and dynamic, with strong verticals contrasting against the softer curves of the fruit bowl and pink vessel.

The palette is restrained and harmonious, featuring warm creams, dusty pinks, olive greens, muted browns, and soft greys. These earthy tones give the painting a calm, contemplative atmosphere while the brighter green fruit introduces a gentle focal point within the composition.

Brushwork is soft yet deliberate, with layered painterly surfaces and subtle tonal blending throughout the background. The geometric objects are rendered with firmer edges and controlled application of paint, while lighter, feathered strokes in the surrounding space lend the work an airy softness and understated depth.

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

Size: 48 x 40 cm (including frame)

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Farmhouse Cottage

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A charming mid-century landscape painting, executed in oil onto canvas.

The composition captures a serene landscape scene of a farmhouse beneath a broad thatched roof, accompanied by a full-bodied tree to the right. The composition is balanced and restrained, focusing on the geometric rhythm of the roofline contrasted with the organic softness of the foliage.

The artist has worked in a modernist style, reducing forms to their essentials while retaining a sense of place and atmosphere. The palette is cool and calming, with sky blues, muted teals, earthy browns, and soft golden browns, which together create a tranquil countryside mood.

The brushstrokes are broad and textured, applied with confident, almost block-like swathes of paint that suggest depth and light without unnecessary detail. This technique allows the viewer’s eye to rest on the impression of shapes and tones, rather than fine rendering.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary wooden frame and with inner silver and cream border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 42.5 x 50 cm (including frame)

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Harvest Under the Canopy

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A rich and striking striking mid-century modernist figurative landscape composition, painted in oil and gouache by the established Swedish female artist Brita Hansson (1918-1979).

A group of figures is gathered beneath a grove of robust, twisting trees – likely harvesters at rest or mid-task, surrounded by produce and market crates. The scene hums with life, captured in abstracted yet recognisable forms. Deep blues, earthy reds, browns, and forest greens dominate the palette, contrasted with striking patches of orange and golden yellow that suggest dappled sunlight filtering through foliage.

Painted in a bold, modernist style, the figures and environment are rendered with broad, expressive brushstrokes and geometric abstraction. The trees form powerful vertical rhythms while the figures, draped in rich fabrics, add weight and grounded intimacy to the scene. The brushwork is confident and gestural, emphasising mass and movement rather than realistic detail – imbuing the painting with a sense of warmth.

This oil and gouache on paper has been mounted onto board, and is housed in a complementary wood frame with an inner gilt window. There is a tiny bit of craquelure present in the middle tree but the paint layer is stable, and the painting is in good vintage condition overall.

Size: 62.5 x 75 cm (including frame)

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Ice Fishing

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A mid-century oil painting that captures the quiet moment of an ice fisher, seated beside a small sled on a vast, frozen expanse, 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.

The figure is huddled near a freshly cut fishing hole, his vibrant clothing and gear providing a focal point against the endless white landscape. The distant horizon, painted in soft bands of pastel blues, greens, and violets, evokes the crisp stillness of a winter sky.

Minimalist and impressionistic, the work favours capturing mood and atmosphere over intricate details. The artist conveys emotion through the restrained composition, focusing the viewer’s attention on the quiet perseverance of the scene.

The palette is soft and delicate, capturing the serene nature of the scene. The artist has used smooth, horizontal brushstrokes to build the expansive landscape and layered sky, while shorter, expressive marks define the figure and the cluster of dry grasses in the foreground. These contrasting textures add visual interest to the painting.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has very minot scuffing but is in very good condition overall.

Size: 43 x 56 cm (including frame)

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Pastel Grove

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A soothing and pleasant mid-century abstract modernist landscape that evokes a tranquil woodland clearing bathed in the gentle glow of early morning light, executed in oil onto canvas.

Slender vertical forms suggest tree trunks rising through a softly diffused atmosphere, while a luminous central passage draws the eye inward, hinting at a path or opening beyond. The composition balances abstraction and suggestion, allowing the viewer to experience both place and feeling without strict definition.

Rendered in a delicate pastel palette of blush pinks, warm yellows, and soft sage greens, the painting captures the fleeting harmony of nature as it shifts between seasons or times of day. Subtle tonal transitions create a sense of depth and air, while muted earth tones anchor the foreground in quiet stability.

The brushwork is expressive yet restrained, with visible palette knife textures and layered impasto lending the surface a tactile richness. Paint is applied in confident sweeps and gentle scrapes, allowing underlayers to emerge and interact, enhancing the painting’s luminous, atmospheric quality. The result is a serene and contemplative modernist work: both structured and intuitive as the landscape is captured as an emotional and sensory experience rather than a literal view.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary slim silver frame. Both painting and frame are in good vintage condition.

Size: 56 x 47.5 cm (including frame)

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The Red Cabin

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An expressive and richly textured mid-century landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1939.

The painting depicts a tranquil rural scene, dominated by a winding path leading towards a small, rustic red cabin. The scene is surrounded by rolling hills adorned with tall, narrow trees, showcasing a variety of green and earthy tones. In the foreground, a tree with sparse leaves reaches over the path, creating a natural arch that frames the view. The background reveals a dense forest on the hillside, painted in darker, muted hues, suggesting depth and distance.

The artist has used an impressionistic style with bold, expressive brushstrokes that give the painting a dynamic and textured quality. The paint is applied thickly, creating a tactile, almost sculptural effect. The brushwork, particularly in the pathway and foliage, is deliberately loose, emphasising movement and the natural flow of the landscape.

The composition features a harmonious palette of earthy browns, greens, and soft yellows, punctuated by the vibrant red of the cabin. The varied shades of green in the trees and fields complement the rich brown tones of the path and hills, evoking a fresh and soothing quality in the painting.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary robust wood frame.. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has some scuffing but this is in keeping with its vintage style.

Size: 46 x 55 cm (including frame)

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Circle of Light

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An endearing and uplifting mid-century figurative landscape that captures a moment of shared presence, as a group of simplified figures stand hand-in-hand and appear to be dancing in a circular formation, executed in oil onto board.

At the centre, a vivid burst of yellow – suggestive of sheaves of wheat or a glowing harvest bundle – anchors the composition, radiating warmth. Above, small birds in flight animate the sky, adding a sense of movement and freedom.

Rendered in a distinctly modernist, almost naïve style, the figures are intentionally reduced to essential forms. The colour palette is bold and expressive: saturated yellows and greens dominate the foreground, conveying warmth and vitality, while deep blues and teals in the sky and garments provide a cooling counterbalance. Subtle pink tones for the faces introduce a human softness, gently breaking the graphic simplicity.

Brushwork is loose and confident, with visible, sweeping strokes that give the painting a tactile, almost rhythmic quality. The layering of paint – particularly in the sky and fields – adds depth and movement, while the central yellow form is applied more thickly, enhancing its visual prominence.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary warm, natural wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 63 x 63 cm (including frame)

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Surrealist Still Life

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

The main focus is a still life arrangement, where the objects are flatly rendered, with strong outlines and solid colours, giving them a stylized, almost graphic appearance. The still life is set against a dramatic landscape featuring dark, jagged rock formations and a glowing yellow-orange sky. The horizon line is low, creating a sense of vastness and emphasizing the glowing sunset or sunrise. Two distant rocky outcrops are visible on the horizon, adding depth and a touch of realism.

This painting is a striking combination of still life and landscape, juxtaposing the intimate simplicity of fruit and household objects with the grandeur and drama of a glowing, otherworldly landscape. The bold use of colour and form creates a stylized and dynamic composition, blending realism with abstraction. It evokes a sense of harmony between the everyday and the sublime.

This tempera on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has very minor scuffs, but is in good condition overall.

Size: 29.5 x 34 cm (including frame)

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