Painted by renowned Bror Gösta Vilhelm Wikström (1931 - 1997), was a Swedish painter, draftsman, photographer and film artist. A beautiful, calming lunar landscape of the rocky coast of the harsh Scandinavian region. The moon, breaking through the clouds, playfully reflects on the sea surface, brightly illuminating everything around with a mysterious light. The foreground features trees with intricately shaped branches, shaped by the relentless onslaught of the northern winds. The delicate balance between severity and serenity in this painting highlights the uniqueness of this region, where the raw power of nature harmonizes with its vulnerability. This landscape was painted around the 1950s–1960s, at the very height of the artist’s creative nature. Vintage oil painting on canvas, signed lower left, unframed.
Size app.: 49.8 x 110 cm (roughly 19.6 x 43.3 in). Overall in very good ready to hang condition, little age and usage wear. Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 4 kg is going to measure 6 kg packed for shipment.
Wikström studied at the department of decorative arts at Konstfack's art school in 1948 - 1950 and graduated from the Higher Art School in 1953. He was enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1951 where he studied until 1957 with the exception of the academic years 1952 - 1953 and 1953 - 1954 when he was laid off. He was for a number of years an assistant to Einar Forseth and gained in the 1950s and 1960s a thorough practical experience of mural painting. In the mid-1960s, he became interested in experimental photo art and in 1965 organized an open-air exhibition on a billboard in Stockholm with photographs taken in an instant camera. After he deepened his photography skills, he exhibited a series of quick photographs with grimacing and gesticulating figures at Galleri Maxim in Stockholm in 1966 where the images were printed in silkscreen in blue and silver shades. Together with Ture Sjölander, he created the experimental film Time, which mainly consists of a recording with avant-garde jazz musician Don Cherry and his quintet at Gyllende cirkeln. He participated in 1950 and 1952 in the National Museum's exhibition Unga tengnare and in Sweden's general art association's salon in Stockholm in 1956 as well as in Liljevalch's art gallery's Stockholm salons.
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