artist: Bertil Berntsson (Swedish 1921-2002)
medium: oil on cardboard
dimensions: 44 x 36 cm art size / 53 1/2 x 45 1/2 cm frame size (approx)
signed and dated 51
* note - there is some minor cracking in the paint and movement in the paper, but this is stable and possibly has been always present. Overall the painting still presents very well.
presented in its original frame with new non-reflective UV glass
AU $925 (approx US $650 / 555 EUROS / 101,500 yen / 485 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist bio
Bertil Berntsson was born on 1st January 1921 in Värö. He studied at the Konsthögskolan Valand between 1939 and 1940, the Skånska målarskolan in Malmö between 1945 and 1946 and then in Paris, in 1949, under the French artist André Lhote (1885-1962). Berntsson first exhibited in Varberg in 1939 and participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Stockholm, Malmö and Helsingborg beginning in 1947 and through the 1970s.
Berntsson's works are held in the public collections of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Malmö konstmuseum Ystad konstmuseum, Helsingborgs stadsmuseum, Halmstad Museum, Lund University's Collection and the Archive for Decorative Art in Lund.
Berntsson passed away in 2002, aged 81.