Axel Wallert, Seated Woman with Mandolin - Antique Etching

Name: Axel Wallert, Seated Woman with Mandolin - Antique Etching
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA912501
Availability: SoldOut

1900 - 1920

Sold by Brave Fine Art

Description

This exquisite early 20th-century etching by Swedish artist Axel Wallert (1890-1962) depicts a seated woman playing the mandolin. It’s brimming with style yet captured with sensitivity.

Given the relative level of intimacy, it’s plausible that the subject is Wallert’s first wife Sigrid Roos who was also an artist. He married Sigrid just four years earlier - in 1914.

It’s also interesting to note that in 1884, Anders Zorn produced a fine painting of a young lady playing the mandolin, so perhaps it served as inspiration.

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm holds another copy of this etching.

Signed/dated in the lower right.

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Medium: Etching on paper

Overall size: 12” x 16½” / 30cm x 42cm

Year of creation: 1918

Condition: A few horizontal creases down the left hand side. Frame with some light wear.

Artist’s auction highlight: £31,365 achieved for an oil painting in 1999.

Physical Dimensions

Height

42cm (16.54")

Width

30cm (11.81")

Depth

2cm (0.79")

Declaration

Brave Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1910s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA912501

Description

This exquisite early 20th-century etching by Swedish artist Axel Wallert (1890-1962) depicts a seated woman playing the mandolin. It’s brimming with style yet captured with sensitivity.

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Given the relative level of intimacy, it’s plausible that the subject is Wallert’s first wife Sigrid Roos who was also an artist.

Brave Fine Art

He married Sigrid just four years earlier - in 1914.

fig 1. Axel Wallert, Seated Woman With Mandolin - Antique Etching — fig 1. Axel Wallert, Seated Woman with Mandolin - Antique Etching

It’s also interesting to note that in 1884, Anders Zorn produced a fine painting of a young lady playing the mandolin, so perhaps it served as inspiration.

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm holds another copy of this etching.