AUGUST STRINDBERG | ÖVERSVÄMNING VID DONAU (FLOOD ON THE DANUBE)

Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Swedish
1849 - 1912
ÖVERSVÄMNING VID DONAU (FLOOD ON THE DANUBE)

signed A S and dated 94. (upper left); signed August Strindberg and inscribed har målat denna / Öfversvämningsbild från Donau / i Dornach / 1894. / om / Våren (on the reverse)
oil on board
17 by 12¾ in.
43.2 by 32.4 cm

Condition Report:
The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: Not examined out of the frame. This work on board is unreinforced on the reverse. The surface is slightly warped with a convex area in the upper right and a concave area around the tree in the center. The paint layer is stable. The work is clean and lightly varnished. Although some of the original pigment reads unevenly under ultraviolet light, the only retouches are in the four corners, and on the center of the bottom edge. There are some slightly lighter marks in the pale pink foreground on the right side and in the more magenta color on the left side that may correspond to retouches to some of the dark undercolor, but none fluoresce strongly under ultraviolet light.

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Provenance:
Sale: Bukowskis, Stockholm, December 14, 1922, lot 57

Museum of Cultural History, Lund (acquired at the above sale and sold, Beijers Auktioner, Stockholm, April 25, 1990, lot 303)

Private Collection (and sold, Sotheby's, London, November 19, 2001, lot 162, illustrated)

Acquired at the above sale