'Cubist Composition' by Harald Fredrikson

'Cubist Composition' by Harald Fredriksonartist: Harald Fredrikson (Swedish 1902 1973) medium: oil on board dimensions: 59 x 75 cm frame size (approx) signed circa 1950s presented n a new off white timber liner and hand finished outer timber frame AU $1660 (approx US $1085 1025 EUROS 168,500 yen 855 GBP for exact current conversion visit xe. com) artist biography Erik Harald Fredrikson was born October 17, 1902 in ker, Sdermanland. He was a Swedish painter. After school Fredrikson worked as

artist: Harald Fredrikson (Swedish 1902-1973)

medium: oil on board

dimensions: 59 x 75 cm frame size (approx)
signed
circa 1950s
presented n a new off white timber liner and hand finished outer timber frame

AU $1660 (approx US $1085 / 1025 EUROS / 168,500 yen / 855 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)

artist biography
Erik Harald Fredrikson was born October 17, 1902 in Åker, Södermanland. He was a Swedish painter.

After school Fredrikson worked as a decorative painter before deciding he wanted to become an artist and he began his art studies at the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm from 1927 to 1930. He took study trips to Austria and Germany in 1931-32 as a recipient of a scholarship from th Svenska slöjdföreningens (Swedish Crafts Association). He also took study trips Denmark in 1946 and France and Spain in 1947. 

His debut solo exhibition was in Eskilstuna in 1937 and has subsequently had several solo shows including ones at Galerie Moderne in Stockholm in 1945, in Strängnäs in 1946, at Lorensberg's art salon in Gothenburg 1948, in Halmstad in 1949, in Södertälje in 1950 and in Karlskoga and at the Lilla Galleriet in Stockholm in  1951.  Critic Emmy Melin wrong about this 1951 exhibition in a 1951 issue of Konstrevy : “He is not looking for surprising motifs, rather interiors and several variations on a bridge motif shows how he searches for different colouristic moods. He works in stain technique and with a certain abstraction. From deep colour saturation, he eases the scale all the way to lighter tones. It is a painting that really expresses something through the colour composition itself.”

He exhibited his work as well in group exhibitions including ones with Sveriges allmänna konstförenings (Swedish General Art Association), as well as in group exhibitions in Eskilstuna in 1935, Strängnäs in 1939, Gävle and Linköping in 1942 and Höganäs 1945, 1946 and 1947). He was a member of the two artist’s associations - the Konstnärernas riksorganisation and the Svenska konstnärernas förening.

Fredrikson painted painted landscapes with figures, still lifes and occasional portraits. Examples of his work are held in public collections including the at the Eskilstuna Art Museum and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

He passed away in Stockholm at the age of 70 on January 10, 1973.