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Edward OLUND-HANSEN
(Copenhagen, 1887 – Copenhagen, 1979)
Woman Sewing, Seen from Behind, in a Danish Interior
Oil on canvas
H. 59 cm ; W. 59 cm
Signed with the monogram lower left
Circa 1915
Trained notably by Laurits Tuxen and Gustav Vermehren, Edward Olund-Hansen entered the Royal Academy of Copenhagen in 1911. He exhibited at the Charlottenborg Salon from 1917 to 1976.
Our painting corresponds to the intimate interior scenes, with pronounced chiaroscuro effects, that he produced at the beginning of his career, and which obviously recall the compositions of Hammershøi or Carl Holsøe, in which a single figure, illuminated by a soft Nordic light, often turns their back to the viewer.
With the discovery of the island of Bornholm (off the Swedish coast of Scania, in the Baltic Sea), where he spent his summers from 1920 onwards, Olund-Hansen evolved toward landscape painting, using a luminous and variegated palette, while retaining the broad brushwork already present in our painting.
