artist: Ingvar Elén (Swedish 1915-1973)
medium: oil on panel
dimensions: 50 cm x 38 cm panel / 60 x 48 cm frame size (approx)
signed
circa 1950s/60s
presented in a new hand finished timber frame with vintage off white painted inner liner frame
AU $1575 (approx US $970 / 945 EUROS / 152,500 yen / 790 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Ingvar Elén was born in Stockholm on 28th June 1915. He was a Swedish painter and print maker.
Elén attended the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm from 1933 to 1937 and took private study trips to Denmark and Norway. Elén then studied in Paris in 1937, returning to Sweden in 1939. He travelled to the South of France, Italy and visited London (1947-48) and then Spain in 1952.
Examples of Elén's works are held in the collections of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the National Museum, Stockholm and the Sörmlands Museum.