artist: Pär Andersson (Swedish 1926-2015)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 32 x 37 cm canvas / 43 x 48 cm frame (approx)
signed
circa 1950s/60s
presented in a new off white painted timber liner with hand finished outer timber frame
AU $1445 (approx US $940 / 810 EUROS / 143,500 yen / 705 GBP - for exact current value visit xe.com)
artist biography
Pär Sigurd Andersson was born 12 December, 1926 in Skellefteå, Västerbotten. He was was a Swedish artist.
Pär Andersson first studied at the Konstfackskolan (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design) in Stockholm from 1944 to 1948 and then with André Lhote in Paris from 1948 to 1949. He studied with Olle Nyman at the Konstakademiens (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Stockholm from 1951 to 1956.
He made his debut with pencil drawings and oil paintings at a group exhibition in Skellefteå in 1949. Andersson exhibited in over forty exhibitions throughout his career. He became a member of the Konstakademien (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in 1973.
He was a teacher at Konstfack in mural painting from 1959–1972 and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1973. He is best known for his contributions to the design of church spaces during the 1960s and 1970s where produced and designed modernist interiors including mosaics, stained glass and paintings.
Pär Andersson was married to the artist Astrid Theselius Andersson (1927–2019) in 1954 and is the father of the furniture architect Mats Theselius. The Härnösand Art Association held a retrospective exhibition for the couple at the Härnösand Art Gallery in 2009.
Examples of Andersson’s work are held in the collections of the National Museum in Stockholm, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Andersson passed away in Lidgatu at the age of 88 on 18 February, 2015.