Description:

Lars Bertle, oil on board, listed Swedish visual artist.

Expressive composition executed with vigorous, dynamic brushwork and an intense palette of green, blue, red, and yellow tones. Broad impasto strokes create a pronounced textural surface in which abstract forms and suggestions of a landscape merge into an energetic colouristic expression. Signed Bertle and dated 1969 lower right.

Origin: Sweden.
Material: Board, oil paint.
Dimensions: Visual size 26 × 22 cm, total size 29 × 24 cm.
Period: 1969.
Condition: In excellent condition with minor signs of wear.

Bio:
Lars Bertle (1925–2022) was a Swedish visual artist from Helsingborg. Largely self-taught, he became professionally active as an artist during the 1960s. Bertle’s oeuvre includes landscapes, figure subjects, still lifes, and abstract compositions, frequently distinguished by an expressive, colouristic language and vigorous, textural handling of paint. Nature was an important source of inspiration, although his subjects were often liberated from naturalistic representation in favour of colour, rhythm, and painterly energy. His work is represented in several Swedish public collections, including Helsingborg Museum, Landskrona Museum, and through the Swedish National Public Art Council.