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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2023 | Stockholms Auktionsverk | Stockholm | Modern & Contemporary | 473 | $****** - ****** | "Måskär".; Bukowskis Modern Autumn Auction |
paintings
73 x 81.5 cm (28.74 x 32.09 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed INGE SCHIÖLER.
INGE SCHIÖLER. "Måskär".
Oil on canvas, 73 x 81.5 cm. Signed INGE SCHIÖLER. Executed in 1952.
Måskär is located in the westernmost part of the Koster archipelago, and was a recurring motif for Inge Schiöler.
PROVENANCE
Professor Nils Westermark, Villa Lido
Bukowskis Modern Autumn Auction 1990
EXHIBITIONS
Göteborgs Konstmuseum 1972, Inge Schiöler, cat. no. 325 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1972, Inge Schiöler, cat. no. 86" Nils Ryndel, Inge Schiöler, Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Publication LXXXI, 1972, illustrated p. 116.
Like no other Swedish painter, Inge Schiöler portrayed the wonderfulness of the Swedish west coast. In his art, sea and land meet in colorful, life-affirming, explosions. Although Schiöler moved in a limited world of motifs, with nature at its center, through the glow of pure color and the naked language of the brush, he succeeded in endlessly renewing and varying his subjects.
Inge Schiöler grew up in a cultural home in Strömstad, and after studies at Valand followed travels in Europe and a spartan artistic life in Stockholm. After mismanaging his health for an extended period of time, Schiöler came to suffer from increasing mental illness. At the age of twenty-five, he was admitted as a mental patient at St. Jörgen"s clinic outside Gothenburg. Not until twenty-seven years later, in 1960, was he discharged for good. The first time in the hospital he was completely apathetic, but eventually found his way back to painting. In connection with the improvement of his health, from 1946 onwards he received more and more and longer permissions. These were spent in his cottage at Sydkoster, where he could fully indulge in painting. With newfound energy also came the artistic success, and Schiöler subsequently experienced several successful exhibitions.
From the late 1940s until the 1970s Schiöler came to rejoin a particular group of motifs drawn from the coastal country outside Strömstad. In these paintings, the sea is present in the image as a bay or a flap of the horizon. Instead, it is the windswept cliffs, with their sparse vegetation and the fragrant seaweed, that take centre stage. In Schiöler"s imagination, the Bohus granite has been dyed purple, mirroring the clouds and the mood of the sea.
Nils Ryndell describes the artwork with painterly appropriations in his 1972 biography of the artist “In Måskär, Schiöler has let a light violet form the basic tone for the whole canvas. Over this he has laid a silvery white in the sky and in the surface of the water between some islands in the fund. Against this background, the cliffs and the coastal moraine of the foreground stand in deep tones: maroon, emerald green, golden yellow, black-green. I get the word “bouillabaisse” on my tongue in front of this mighty coloristic installation.”.
