GÖSTA SANDELS. “Under the Rowan Tree”.

Oil on canvas, 101 x 72.5 cm, including frame 110.5 x 82.5 cm. Signed and dated a tergo G. Sandels pinx. 1914 - Kungelf - . PROVENANCE Mrs. Sandels; Elaine Lagerkvist. Conrad M. Pineus Art Collection No. 77. Stockholms Auktionsverk, Moderna Kvalitén, 8 May 2003, auction no. 726. EXHIBITED Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Group exhibition, 1915. Gothenburg, Gothenburg Museum, Memorial exhibition, 1920, cat. no. 121. Possibly exhibited in Oslo, Kristiania, Memorial exhibition, Kunstnersforbundet, 1920, cat. no. 90. Gothenburg, Nordic Art, Jubilee Exhibition, 1923, cat. no. 216. Then under the title "Under Rönnbärsträdet". Gothenburg, Konsthallen, Conrad M Pineus collection, 1925. Stockholm, Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Memorial exhibition, 1932, cat. no. 49. Then under the title "Fontin, Kungelf". Gothenburg Museum of Art, Pineus Collection, 1950, cat. 69. LITERATURE Stockholm, Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, 1932, No. 49, illustrated on page 219 in the catalogue. Carl Nordenfalk: Conrad M. Pineus konstsamling, Gothenburg 1940, mentioned in text page 127: "The image is largely occupied by the lively interplay between brownish-red and purple cliffs and bright green vegetation. As a unifying focal point in the center stands a woman in a blue and white dress with light yellow hair under a tree with a light green crown, covered in red berries. She is breaking a branch with her arms raised above her head. 'Flaming' sky in blue and white, deepening upwards. Signed on the back of the canvas G. Sandels pinx 1914. Kungelf. Motif from Fontinberget near Kungälv. Purchased after the artist's death by Mrs. Elaine Sandels.".