Smoking lady in hat. Einar Forseth (1892-1988). Signed and dated 1919.
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Dimensions: Height 75 cm (30 inches) x Width 61 cm (25 inches)
This painting, watercolour on paper, is executed during Forseths first visit to Paris in nov-dec 1919 and most likely depicts one of the ladies in his artistic circles at the time.
Einar Forseth , born 7 August 1892 in Linköping, died 5 December 1988 in Stockholm, was a Swedish painter, draftsman, illustrator, designer and professor, known among other things as a monumental artist and stained glass painter.
Einar Forseth is perhaps best known for his Byzantine-inspired gold mosaics in the Golden Hall in Stockholm City Hall, whose walls are covered with 18.6 million colored mosaic pieces with glass and gold, depicting the Queen of Mälaren as well as allegorical figures and fantasies in a modernist style, completed in the spring of 1923.
Forseth has been involved in creating several public environments in Sweden, and is also widely represented in Swedish church buildings and cinemas around the country. Forseth was a monumental painter and stained glass painter.
Forseth was also active in the art industry, where he designed both everyday and ornamental objects for factory production. Among other things, he composed and decorated porcelain services for the Lidköping porcelain factory. He gained international attention for his stained glass windows in the cathedral in Coventry in the West Midlands of England in 1962, where he created the stained glass windows in the part of the cathedral called the Chapel of Unity in The New Coventry Cathedral.
Einar Forseth received the title of professor in 1962.
Represented: Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Swedish State Portrait Collection at Gripsholm Castle, as well as 26 works by him in the collection of Västerås Art Museum.