'Winter Trees’ by Ture Pettersson

'Winter Trees’ by Ture Petterssonartist: Ture Pettersson (Swedish 1919 2000) medium: oil on panel dimensions: 44 x 2 1 2 cm frame size signed circa 1950s 60s presented in its original timber liner frame with new hand finished outer timber frame AU $675 (approx US $480 420 EUROS 55,500 yen 355 GBP for exact current conversion visit xe. com) artist biography Ture John Gunnar Pettersson was born November 18, 1919 in Gothenburg. He was a Swedish painter and illustrator. Pettersson was

artist: Ture Pettersson (Swedish 1919-2000)

medium: oil on panel

dimensions: 44 x 2 1/2  cm frame size
signed
circa 1950s/60s
presented in its original timber liner frame with new hand finished outer timber frame

AU $675 (approx US $480 / 420 EUROS / 55,500 yen / 355 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)

artist biography
Ture John Gunnar Pettersson was born November 18, 1919 in Gothenburg. He was a Swedish painter and illustrator.

Pettersson was initially self taught but then formally studied art at the Valands målarskola (painting school) from 1957 to the late 1950s.

Select exhibitions included an exhibition of Gothenburg art in Härnösand in 1948, exhibitions organsised by Folkrörelsernas konstfrämjande in Borås and Eskilstuna in 1949 and in Ulricehamn in 1950. He exhibited work in the Svenskt och Franskt Måleri (Swedish and French Art) exhibition in Falkenberg in 1953. He had a three person show at Olsens Konstsalong in Gothenburg in 1949 aongside Georg Andersson and Bror Göransson.

Pettersson painted figurative works, still lifes and landscape scenes in oil as well as book covers and drawings for magazines.

He passed away in Gothenburg at the age of 80 on June 22, 2000.