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VALDEMAR AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA Finland, VALDEMAR AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA Finland 1865-1931 Tre sp...

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VALDEMAR AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA Finland, VALDEMAR AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA Finland 1865-1931 Tre sp...
VALDEMAR AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA Finland
VALDEMAR AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA Finland 1865-1931 Tre spelande män vid bord Pastel, 53 x 42,5 cm Gallen-Kallela became the undisputed leader of the symbolist movement in Finland in the 1890, despite his earlier adherence to realisme in the 1880’s. In the latter style his pictures displayed the influence of Jules Bastien-Lepage. He then encountered symbolism for the first time in 1892, inspired by the metaphysical concepts of the Modernist introduced by Edvard Munch’s friend the writer Adolf Paul. Later he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and this was to have a marked influence on his later work Gallen-Kallela spent much of the period 1884 to 1889 in Paris where he came across many artists and writers. They included the ceramist Count Henri de Vallombreuse and his wife with whom he portrayed in oil and pastels of 1889. According to Mrs. Kertu Karvonene Kannas, former director of the Gallen-Kallela museum at Espo in Finland, the man at the back on the right in the present pastel is likely to be Henri de Vallonbreuse. This identification and the stylistic similarity to the pastel “Sommarlandskap“ in the Helsinki Atheneum suggest that the present work should be dated circa 1889 and was probably executed in Paris before his return to Finland. PROVENANCE: Previously the collection of count Henri de Vallombreuse