Eric Johansson - Woman with Red Bow, 1940Eric Johansson (1896 1979) Sweden Germany Woman with Red Bow, 1940 oil on wood panel signed on the back of the panel dated 1940 unframed 60 x 54 cm framed 71. 5 x 66 cm Provenance: A Swedish private collection Conditon: Very good condition, restored by a professional art restorer in 2024. Its original frame has an old patina and minor flaws. Eric Johansson's "Woman with Red Bow" (1940) We are delighted to present for sale the evocative portrait Woman

The surface was full of old nicotine and varnish who was safely removed

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anchoring the composition in a sense of place and history

But when allowing these motifs to unfold and tell stories of the sea in both fiction and reality – or somewhere in between – we are awarded with an understanding of how the oceans truly built our world

In interlacing all of these landscape parts into one perspective

In 1947 and 1948

with its reflective waters and the tranquil expanse of the land under a dramatic sky

a region familiar to the artist

Both the versions in Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal and the Gnecchi collection in Milan are particularly similar in their dramatic impact

through its simplicity and evocative use of color and silhouette

Painted from W

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