artist: Kerstin Lundberg-Stenman (Swedish 1926-2007)
medium: oil pastel on paper
dimensions: 27 x 34 1/2 cm paper size / 29 x 36 1/2 cm framed size (approx)
signed and dated 1949
* note - a few age related handling marks and a light crease on bottom left edge, but overall this presents nicely
* currently being presented in a new shadowbox timber frame with non-reflective UV glass - due back at the gallery late August, 2025. Photos to follow. If purchased in the meantime your order will be fulfilled as soon as this is back at the gallery.
AU $895 (approx US $585 / 500 EUROS / 86,500 yen / 435 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Kerstin Ingeborg Lundberg-Stenman was a Swedish painter and craftswoman whose work spanned painting, mosaic, and jewellery design. Born on March 27, 1926, in Valdemarsvik, she studied at Anders Beckman’s Advertising School (1946–1948) and undertook study trips to Switzerland, England, France, and Greece. In 1954, she was a guest student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens, deepening her engagement with European artistic traditions.
Together with her husband Martin Stenman, Lundberg-Stenman exhibited in Kalmar and at the Norrköping Art Museum, and she took part in numerous group shows with the Östgöta Art Association. Her work was also shown internationally in Germany, Switzerland, France, and the USA. She was a founding member of the women’s artist collective Octaviagruppen and, in 1988, received the Ystad Municipality Culture Prize.
Her public art includes wall mosaics for Apoteket Kronan in Valdemarsvik, Linköpings Sparbank, and Östra Flickskolan in Norrköping. Working in oil, wax crayon, and watercolour, she created still lifes, portraits, and ornamental figure compositions, alongside pewter jewellery set with glass, crystal, and semi-precious stones.
Lundberg-Stenman’s works are represented in the collections of the Norrköping Art Museum, Linköping Museum, Kalmar County Museum, Ystad Art Museum, the Stockholm Cultural Committee, and numerous municipal collections.
She passed away on January 5, 2007, in Stora Köpinge parish, Ystad Municipality.