Erik Allan August Österlind (1855-1938)
aka “Allan Osterlind”
"Rue de Village Andalou"
Signed
Oil on Board
Giltwood Frame
Osterlind's late Impressionist style exudes masculine strength and vitality, tempered with and enriched by a dramatist's feeling for story-telling. Here we find his painterly talent emotionally imbued with a wistful sense of magic.
Famed for his renderings of flamenco dancers in the streets of Andalusia and Seville, the present work features ethereal figural renderings of villagers in ethnic dress, who seem to dance while carrying their harvest atop their heads through medieval-style dirt roads with flowing water.
A girl sits beside her mother on the curb, partaking of fruit, as a young boy in the foreground moves deftly as a dancer in a bright red smock. Skewed motion and tension prevade the scene: Osterlind reimagines a rustic chore as a naturalistic ballet choreographed as much by classical chiaroscuro & contrapposto as by the Impressionist textures of paint and color that underpin his inimitable style.
Canvas Board: ~ 18” x ~ 13”
Framed: ~ 23” x ~ 18”
Note:
Christie's Paris, 2020 auction misattributed this painting to Anders Osterlind (a landscape painter, a generation later) - which I have corrected to Allan Osterlind (his father, a figure painter).
Provenance:
Marc Arthur Kohn, Paris: March 15, 2000, Lot 38.
Christie's, Paris, 2020.
In the collection of an American philanthropist, 2020.
Erik Allan August Österlind (1855-1938)
aka “Allan Osterlind”
"Rue de Village Andalou"
Signed
Oil on Board
Giltwood Frame
Osterlind's late Impressionist style exudes masculine strength and vitality, tempered with and enriched by a dramatist's feeling for story-telling. Here we find his painterly talent emotionally imbued with a wistful sense of magic.
Famed for his renderings of flamenco dancers in the streets of Andalusia and Seville, the present work features ethereal figural renderings of villagers in ethnic dress, who seem to dance while carrying their harvest atop their heads through medieval-style dirt roads with flowing water.
A girl sits beside her mother on the curb, partaking of fruit, as a young boy in the foreground moves deftly as a dancer in a bright red smock. Skewed motion and tension prevade the scene: Osterlind reimagines a rustic chore as a naturalistic ballet choreographed as much by classical chiaroscuro & contrapposto as by the Impressionist textures of paint and color that underpin his inimitable style.
Canvas Board: ~ 18” x ~ 13”
Framed: ~ 23” x ~ 18”
Note:
Christie's Paris, 2020 auction misattributed this painting to Anders Osterlind (a landscape painter, a generation later) - which I have corrected to Allan Osterlind (his father, a figure painter).
Provenance:
Marc Arthur Kohn, Paris: March 15, 2000, Lot 38.
Christie's, Paris, 2020.
In the collection of an American philanthropist, 2020.
