Sam Uhrdin, Interior Scene With Woman Knitting

Sam Uhrdin, Interior Scene With Woman KnittingThis early 20th century oil painting by Swedish artist Sam Uhrdin (1886 1964) depicts a rustic interior with a woman knitting while her baby sleeps in a wooden cot. In 1933 the European art world was electrified by the modernists Picasso was in his 50s, Matisse was in his 60s, the surrealists were in full swing, and the German expressionists were established. Yet, Sam Uhrdin, who had been exposed to the emerging trends, refused to adapt. Preferring

various inscriptions seem to refer to the sitter and/or the artist but it’s hard to decipher them

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17” x 21” / 43cm x 53cmYear of creation: c

Cavaliere Alessandro Capalti

Overall size: 15½” x 13” / 39cm x 34cm

producing an oeuvre of pristine works

The painting is housed within an appropriate later frame

While out towards the horizon

000 achieved for ‘Rowing out to the Rescue’ at Bonhams in 2004

Several of Brunet’s works are housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bordeaux

his father knew Charles Dickens and it was upon a post-Dickensian canvas that his early associations were formed

with the signpost on the left guiding our eye down the street

The painting is a little later but you can see the influence