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Magnet, Tora Vega Holmström, Boy with a shell
Magnet, Tora Vega Holmström, Boy with a shell
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Square magnet with motif from Tora Vega Holmström's painting Boy with a Shell from 1918, which is in the Moderna Museet collection.
Tora Vega Holmström is one of the important Swedish modernists of the early 20th century. Her work is characterized by a search between different painting styles. She was born in Skåne, where her base remained, but she traveled a lot - to Germany, France, Finland and Algeria. During the first half of the 1910s, Tora Vega Holmström painted with strong colors in a mosaic-like style. Towards the end of the decade, she switched to a lighter color scheme and a more subtle expression. She painted Boy with a Shell in different versions in 1918, during a stay in Vindeln, Västerbotten. The war years may have had an impact, by triggering a longing for eternal values. The shell can be seen as something mysterious, a symbol of infinity and eternity. In the paintings from this period, a kinship with Italian fresco painting emerges, which Holmström had studied in Florence in 1910.
Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.5 cm
© Tora Vega Holmström / Image copyright 2023
Tora Vega Holmström is one of the important Swedish modernists of the early 20th century. Her work is characterized by a search between different painting styles. She was born in Skåne, where her base remained, but she traveled a lot - to Germany, France, Finland and Algeria. During the first half of the 1910s, Tora Vega Holmström painted with strong colors in a mosaic-like style. Towards the end of the decade, she switched to a lighter color scheme and a more subtle expression. She painted Boy with a Shell in different versions in 1918, during a stay in Vindeln, Västerbotten. The war years may have had an impact, by triggering a longing for eternal values. The shell can be seen as something mysterious, a symbol of infinity and eternity. In the paintings from this period, a kinship with Italian fresco painting emerges, which Holmström had studied in Florence in 1910.
Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.5 cm
© Tora Vega Holmström / Image copyright 2023
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