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There is a photograph where he stands slightly bent over a table, starting a painting. He wears wide pants and a shirt with rolled-up sleeves. His hair is thinning, but on the sides and in the back, it ripples like the waves in a woodcut by Hokusai. The picture was taken in 1955 and shows the then barely 60-year-old Eric Cederberg in the midst of doing what he loved most. He was a diligent artist, self-taught, ambitious, and productive. But he was also an advertising illustrator and store decorator. As an artist, he made his debut in Helsingborg in 1922, and the influence of modernism's leading figures that he exhibited early in his career, he expressed throughout his artistic life. He had a particular fondness for still lifes in small format with pears, chestnuts, and mushrooms placed on a table or perhaps as a foreground against a backdrop reminiscent of the suggestive vault of the surrealists in muted colors. At Stockholms Auktionsverk Helsingborg, we meet him at his best. In a collection of 26 paintings, his style is captured, giving him a unique place in Swedish modernism, perhaps precisely because his style is so immediately recognizable.
Here, we get to experience the pears and chestnuts, but also his mussel shells, a couple of juicy red apples, and a jug produced in a truly cubist manner. The work "In Memory of Grandma" stretches the boundaries of his still lifes, and in the small cityscape with a bridge, he gives us a taste of something extraordinary.
Welcome to discover or perhaps rediscover the Helsingborg artist Eric Cederberg!
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