Mid-Century Modern 'Pastel City' Swedish Geometric Street Scene Landscape Oil Painting, Framed

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PASTEL CITY
Size: 23 x 19.5 inches (including frame)
Oil on canvas

A beautifully restrained mid-century street scene depicting a … Read more PASTEL CITY
Size: 23 x 19.5 inches (including frame)
Oil on canvas

A beautifully restrained mid-century street scene depicting a cluster of geometric buildings by the sea and beneath an expansive blue sky, executed in oil onto canvas.

The composition looks across a quiet urban neighbourhood, where overlapping facades, rooftops and walls create an almost architectural arrangement of interlocking shapes.

Executed in a distinctly mid-century modernist style, the artist reduces the urban landscape to simplified planes of colour and softly defined geometric forms. Perspective has been deliberately flattened and architectural elements treated as shapes rather than precisely rendered structures. The generous area of uninterrupted sky and sea lends the composition an especially calm, spacious quality.

The palette is wonderfully soft and sun-washed, combining powder blue, chalky white, pale peach, muted sage, dusty pink, ochre and warm beige. Small passages of brighter green and orange provide subtle points of contrast. The overall effect is gentle and atmospheric.

Paint has been applied in broad, controlled areas with a predominantly matte, softly worked surface. Brushwork remains understated, allowing the relationships between colour and form to take precedence.

This oil on canvas is presented in a slender gilt wooden frame. There are some marks to the lower green area of the painting, but it is in good vintage condition overall.

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