Lot 360: HENRIK LUND NORWEGIAN, 1879-1935

signed and dated Henrik Lund / 25 u.r.

oil on canvas

33 by 41cm., 13 by 16in.

PROPERTY FROM A BRITISH PRIVATE COLLECTION

Jacob Christensen, Denmark
Sale: Sotheby's London, 28 March 1990, lot 280
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Henrik Lund received his first artistic training from Harriet Backer in 1899, but later developed his painting style under the influence of Christian Krohg, Edvard Munch and Ludvig Karsten. Lund was responsible for organising The Six exhibition in Berlin and Copenhagen in 1910. The exhibiting group comprised Norway's New Impressionists: Ludvig Karsten, Bernhard Folkestad, Theodor Laureng, Søren Onsager, Anders Svarstad and Lund himself. The sitter, Knut Hamsun, is one of the most renowned names in the history of Norwegian literature and - apart from Ibsen - the most internationally well known.