Mid-century, 'On the Farm,' Gerhard Karlmark (1905-1976)

Mid-century oil painting, 'On the Farm,' by Swedish artist, Gerhard Karlmark (1905-1976).

For anyone who loves their children's picture books as much as I did (do), this wonderful naive narrative piece is such a joy. The bearded farmer waggles a rake at a beetroot coloured hen, the farmer's wife holds her swaddled baby, a donkey grazes on a winding Space Hopper coloured path. In the background a lady in a black pinafore pushes a small wooden cart. The saffron and opal green farmhouse sits wonkily in a mustard field and with childlike trees and billowing clouds.

About the Artist

Karlmark studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1924-1930 and in Copenhagen and during study trips to France, Italy Netherlands and Norway.
He participated annually in Skåne's art society's exhibitions from 1931 and exhibited several times with Konstnärsgillet in Lund museum and at Ystad's art museum.
His art consists of still life , portraits , nude pictures, figures, interiors, harbour motifs and landscape paintings from Norway and Southern Europe in oil, watercolor or pastel. Karlmark is represented at the Malmö Museum and Ystad Art Museum .

Original frame, ready to hang
Size:
Frame: Width X Height
CM: 68.5 x 60
Inches: 27 x 23 1/2
Painting:
CM: 55.5 x 47
Inches: 22 x 18 1/2
Medium: Oil on Board
Provenance: Swedish School, signed lower right
Condition: Very good.
Date: Mid Century

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