1975 Modernist 'Cubist Hillside' Vintage Swedish Landscape Oil Painting, Framed

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CUBIST HILLSIDE
Size: 40.2 x 12.6 inches (including frame)
Oil on canvas

A striking cubist-style modernist composition that captures a … Read more CUBIST HILLSIDE
Size: 40.2 x 12.6 inches (including frame)
Oil on canvas

A striking cubist-style modernist composition that captures a cluster of houses nestled beneath towering trees and radiant geometric hills, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1975.

Painted in a vertically elongated format, the scene unfolds: guiding the eye upward from timber-framed cottages and red rooftops toward pale angular mountains and a glowing cream-coloured sun.

Executed in a modernist style with cubist influences, the composition is built from fractured planes and intersecting triangular forms that give the landscape a rhythmic, architectural structure. The tall dark trees act as dramatic vertical anchors against the luminous pastel terrain, lending the work both serenity and monumentality.

The palette is beautifully restrained, featuring soft creams, pale peach, muted sage, dusty blue, and earthy browns contrasted against deep forest greens and near-black shadows. Areas of impasto and textured layering create a tactile surface, while expressive brushstrokes and scraped passages reveal an intuitive, painterly hand. The faceted hills and sky are rendered with angular sweeps of paint, adding movement and light throughout the composition.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary slim wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffs.

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