artist: Ingvar Elén (Swedish 1915-1973)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 78 x 59 cm canvas size / 92 x 73 cm framed size (approx)
signed
circa 1960s
presented in a new off white painted timber liner with hand finished outer timber frame - photos to follow
* Note - there are a few areas there are indentations from the canvas being stored over time - more noticable on an angle than front on.
** This is a large painting and too big to ship via Airmail post. If you are outside of Australia extra shipping will need to be added (we estimate the total shipping would be around AU$300)
AU $1950 (approx US $1355 / 1020 EUROS / 214,500 yen / 1165 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.