AXEL KARGEL. Still life, oil on panel, signed and dated 1940.

34 x 33 cm. Frame dimensions 51 x 50 cm.

Axel Kargel, a prominent and peculiar cartoonist and painter, was born on 1 March 1896 in Kalmar and died on 19 March 1971 in Stockholm.

After his prominent debut exhibition in Stockholm in 1932, Axel Kargel went to Paris, where he stayed during the period 1932-1933. A rigorous self-criticism delayed his next exhibition for over ten years. It took place at the Galerie Moderne in 1944, but it was through his prominent exhibition at Galerie Acté in 1948 and the solo exhibition he held at Gummeson Konsthall in 1951 that he really established himself as an artist.