GOTTFRID KALLSTENIUS. Plum twigs.

Oil on canvas laid on Board, 56.5 x 42.5 cm. Signed Kallstenius.

Performed on Borsö in the Trosa archipelago where Kallstenius and his wife Gerda, nee Roosval and their two children spent the summer months in 1895-96 after their return to Sweden in 1894 from a multi-year stay abroad in France and Italy. They rented a cabin there from a fisherman and small farmer on the island, "Borsö-Lina". Stylistically, the painting is related to Kallstenius' decorations for Villa Lugnet in Saltsjöbaden designed in 1893 by Ferdinand Boberg for the industrialist Knut Tillberg (1860-1940) (see picture). In 1936, Isaac Grünewald acquired the villa.