'Still Life' by Ulf Wikström

'Still Life' by Ulf Wikströmartist: Ulf Wikstrm (Swedish 1916 1981) medium: oil on canvas laid on panel dimensions: 33 x 26 cm (approx) art size 47 x 40 cm framed size (approx) signed dated 1962 on label verso presented in a new off white timber liner and hand finished outer timber frame * for an example of Wikstrm's work held in the collection of the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm click HERE AU $945 (approx US$620 565 EUROS 83,500 yen 495 GBP for exact

 artist: Ulf Wikström (Swedish 1916-1981)

medium: oil on canvas laid on panel

dimensions: 33 x 26 cm (approx) art size / 47 x 40 cm framed size (approx)
signed
dated 1962 on label verso

presented in a new off white timber liner and hand finished outer timber frame

* for an example of Wikström's work held in the collection of the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm click HERE

AU $945 (approx US$620 / 565 EUROS / 83,500 yen / 495 GBP - for exact current value visit xe.com)

artist biography
Ulf Ernst Ingemar Wikström was a Swedish painter born in 1916 in Stockholm. Largely self taught he is best known for his still life and landscapes with a cubist influence very much with in his own style. Wikström’s had early solo exhibitions in Skara and Mjölby in 1947, Örebro (1948), Karlskoga (1949), Expo Aleby in Stockholm (1950), Galleries S in Stockholm (1962 )and in Norrtälje in 1964. Together with Eric Harry Olson, he exhibited in Kalmar in 1949 and with Alf Wesström in Eksjö in 1951. He exhibited in numerous group shows with the Värmland art association at the Värmland Museum for a succession of years, as well as with the Dalsland Art Association, at the Gothenburg Art Gallery and at Liljevalch's art gallery in Stockholm. 

Wikström’s work is represented in a number of public collections including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Värmland Museum in Karlstad and Jönköping Museum.

He passed away in 1981 aged 65.