Swedish portrait Red-haired fragility 1973 Vintage oil painting by Bengt Borg ^Sale

Bengt Sigvard Borg (1931-1994) born in Stockholm, a very popular artist in Scandinavia. Painting expresses the feeling of the unknown directed towards the idyll, where, based on symbolism, artist left it up to the viewer to interpret the picture's message based on their own impressions and experiences.
Size app.: 58 x 44cm (roughly 22.8 x 17.3 in). Very Good condition, minor damage on edges, age wear. Please study high-res pictures 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. 1,5 kg is going to measure some 2 kg packed for shipment.
Despite B. Borg background in the big city of Stockholm, the urban environment was rarely expressed in his art. Instead, it was the descriptions of nature, the memories from his walks in the scenic, still untouched, forests in Vårdinge and the excursions on Långsjön, reproduced in a realistic, idyllically animated way, that became one of his modes of expression. This is in contrast to his naïve images and personal enigmatic portraits. Another one of Bengts, mode of expression was kurbit painting, associated with a genuinely Swedish past, often with verses in Old Swedish spelling taken from the Old Testament's High Verse. Bengt was a down-to-earth, clearly undervalued, versatile artist. For him, the practice of art was of course a source of income, but it was also important for him to know that his paintings, stones and painted furniture were in, as he saw it, the right hands. When this happened, he felt more satisfied and happy.