artist: Olof Persson (Swedish 1921-2001)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 50 x 22 cm canvas size / 52 x 24 cm frame size (approx)
signed and dated 66
* presented in a new off white painted timber deep float frame
AU $880 (approx US $590 / 540 EUROS / 88,000 yen / 450 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Sven Olof (Olle) Gunnar Persson, wasborn September 14, 1921 in Forshaga in Värmland. He was a Swedish painter and print maker.
Persson was self-taught artist. He began painting in 1946 and between 1955 and 1957 undertook private study including time spent in Copenhagen, where he shared a studio with some Nordic artists of the same age. He undertook a study trip to France in 1955. A group of fellow artists who saw his drawings suggested that he should work with woodcut prints. He made his first woodcuts in 1957-1958. He produced these himself in made small editions with around 20 copies of each print. An exception was a woodcut ordered by the county council in Värmland, which was printed on the high-pressure press at Alsters grafikverkstad (graphics workshop).
Alongside fellow artists Robert Jäppinen and Henri Rothschild, he exhibited in 1958 at Galleri Rönnberg in Gothenburg, and in 1959 together with Bengt Delefors. He showed in a number of Värmlands konstförenings (art association) exhibitions in Karlstad and the association Graphica's exhibition Ung grafik (Young Graphics) in Lund's art gallery in 1959.
He produced landscapes, still lifes and figurative works in oil and woodcuts.
Persson is represented in a number of public collection including the Värmland Museum, the Kalmar Art Museum, Statens konstråd (the State Art Council of Sweden), the Värmland County Council and Karlstad's city collections.
Persson passed away at the age od 79 on April 11, 2001 in Karlstad.